Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan – Reunification Faction

Not to be confused with Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran, or Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan.

The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan – Reunification Faction (Kurdish: كۆمه‌ڵه‌ی شۆڕشگێڕی زه‌حمه‌تكێشانی كوردستانی ئێران – ڕه‌وتی‌ یه‌کگرتنه‌وه, romanized: Komełey Şorrişgêrrî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistanî Êran – Rewtî Yêkgirtnewe)^[1] simply known as the Komala – Reunification Faction, was an armed communist and separatist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, currently exiled in northern Iraq.

Komala – Reunification Faction
Leader	Abdulla Konaposhi
Founded	29 April 2008; 16 years ago (2008-04-29)
Dissolved	2014
Split from	Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Merged into	Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Headquarters	Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
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It split from the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan on 29 April 2008 over internal disagreements^[2] and is led by Abdulla Konaposhi.^[1][2]

History

Main article: Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan § History

See also

• Komala of Revolutionary Toilers of Iranian Kurdistan (1969/1979–1984)
  • Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran (1984–present)
    • Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan (2000–present)
      • Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan (2007–2022)
      • Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan – Reunification Faction (2008–2010)
    • Socialist Faction of Komala (2009–2022)

References

1. Romano, David; Gurses, Mehmet (2014), Conflict, Democratization, and the Kurds in the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria (1st ed.), Springer, p. 75, doi:10.1057/9781137409997_4, ISBN 978-1-137-40999-7
2. Ahmadzadeh, Hashem; Stansfield, Gareth (2010), "The Political, Cultural, and Military Re-Awakening of the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Iran", Middle East Journal, 64 (1): 11–27, doi:10.3751/64.1.11, hdl:10871/9414, JSTOR 20622980, S2CID 143462899