Progressive Youth Organization (Afghanistan) was ananti-revisionistMarxist–Leninist organization inAfghanistan. The organization emerged from theNew Democratic Current (Jerian-e Demokratik-e Navin), a leftist movement that had been established byAbdulrahim Mahmudi,Abdulhadi Mahmudi,Akram Yari andSeddiq Yari. The New Democratic Current founded the PYO in October 1965. The group brought out the publicationShalleh-ye Javid ('Eternal Flame'), and its followers were generally known assholayes. PYO never made its existence or name known to the public. PYO was dissolved in 1972.[1]