Comrades Party

The party was part of a wave of political groupings established in the early 1940s following the removal of Rezā Shāh.

[5][2] Fateh, who had been an important figure in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company edited the Tudeh paper Mardom 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.

[2] The Comrades Party called for two main aims i.e. political equality to all Iranians and nationalisation of the means of production.

[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 of Emruz va Farda, broke away to form the Socialist Party.