Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran)

Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran)

اتحادیه کمونیست‌های ایران
Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran) اتحادیه کمونیست‌های ایران
Founded	1976
Dissolved	2001
Merger of	OCRML; Pooya Group
Succeeded by	CPIMLM
Ideology	Communism; Marxism-Leninism; Maoism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	RIM (defunct)
	Politics of Iran; Political parties; Elections;

Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran lit. the head-on-gallow mass) (UIC(S); Persian: اتحادیه کمونیست‌های ایران) was a Maoist organization in Iran. The UIC(S) was formed in 1976 after the alliance of a number of Maoist groups carrying out military actions within Iran. The group prepared an insurrection starting in 1981, but it was dismantled by 1982.^[2]

Although it has gone through several ideological changes, it has maintained a general Maoist viewpoint advocating that Iran is not a capitalist society but a "semicolonial-semifeudal" one. In 2001 the UIC(S) became the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist).

^ Mirsepassi, Ali (2004), The Tragedy of the Iranian Left, RoutledgeCurzon, Table 10.2 Characteristics of principal secular left-wing organizations, 1979–83
^ Gustavo Gorriti (1999). The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. The University of North Carolina Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0807846766.

[1] Mirsepassi, Ali (2004), The Tragedy of the Iranian Left, RoutledgeCurzon, Table 10.2 Characteristics of principal secular left-wing organizations, 1979–83

[2] Gustavo Gorriti (1999). The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. The University of North Carolina Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0807846766.

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