Comrades Party | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Mustafa Fateh |
| Founded | 1942 |
| Newspaper | Emruz va Farda |
| Ideology | Socialism[1][2] |
| Political position | Left-wing |
TheComrades Party or theCompatriots Party[3] (Persian:حزب همرهان,romanized: Hezb-e Hamrahān) was a left-wingIranian political party active during the 1940s. The party was part of a wave of political groupings established in the early 1940s following the removal ofRezā Shāh.[4]
The party was formed in October/November 1942 byMustafa Fateh, an economist who was close to theTudeh Party of Iran but who disliked the close relationship which that party had with theSoviet Union.[5][2] Fateh, who had been an important figure in theAnglo-Iranian Oil Company edited the Tudeh paperMardom for a time before establishing his own journal,Emruz va Farda.[5] Abbas Narraqi, another founding member had been one of 53 men imprisoned in 1937 on charges of conspiring to lead a communist revolution.[5]
According toL. P. Elwell-Sutton, the party was more orthodox than theTudeh Party in advocating a socialist cause.[2]
The Comrades Party called for two main aims, political equality to all Iranians andnationalisation of the means of production.[5]
The party put forward ten candidates in the1944 election, all of whom came from professional backgrounds.[5] Two members of the Comrades Party were elected to theMajlis of Iran where they sat with the Individuals' Caucus, a group they made up along with theIran Party and variousindependents, all of whom largely followed the lead ofMohammad Mosaddegh.[6]
The party split in 1944 following a dispute inIsfahan where clashes between striking workers and local tribes loyal to the Shah had broken out amid accusations that the workers were attempting to lead a communist revolution.[7] The Majlis-based wing of the Comrades Party condemned the workers and affirmed their loyalty to the Shah but another external group joined Tudeh in supporting the strikers and this group, which maintained control ofEmruz va Farda, broke away to form theSocialist Party.[8]
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