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The first meeting of the People's Fedaian Movement was organised in 1963 by Bijan Jazani and his colleagues. They had reached the conclusion that the powerful American influence in Iran and the repression against liberal dissidents in Iran has made peaceful activism entirely ineffective.

Armed struggle was therefore viewed as the sole effective way to liberation. In the period from 1971 to 1979, Fedaian came under an intense attack by the Shah's regime, with nearly 300 of Fedaian members were murdered by the regime. In this period the majority of the Organisation's leaders were captured and murdered.

Fedaian played an effective and active role in the revolution of 1979. But at the same time some disagreements arose in the organisation. And thus two opposing tendencies were created in the OIPFG. The disagreements of these tendencies focused on 3 points:


 * The assessment of the class-content of the new regime, which took power after the February insurrection in 1979, and the attitude towards it;


 * The attitude towards the Soviet Union;


 * The assessment of the OIPFG's past and its former political line;

One tendency, namely the right-wing, approached the lines of Tudeh party, which was backed by the Soviet Union. The tendency assessed the Islamic Rebublic as a pett- bourgeois, revolutionary, anti-imperialist regime. It asserted that any armed struggle against the Shah's regime, which had been carried out by the OIPFG, was wrong.

On the other hand the left-wing tendency stressed the Marxist-Leninist and anti-revisionist standpoints of the OIPFG and its dividing line with the Soviet Union. This section considered the Islamic Republic to be a bourgeois-religious, reactionary, and antirevolutionary regime. It therefore proposed, that the people should be organised to overthrow the Islamic Republic.

Finally, the left tendency, concerning the former political attitude of the OIPFG, emphasized that although they had some errors in form when accentuating the armed struggle in proportion to the political struggle and mass organisation, the OIPFG's past couldn't be denied in its entirety. Now we should concentrate on the organisation of the workers and the development of their consciousness.

These disagreements finally ended with a comprehensive split among the OIPFG in 1980. The right-wing, which was advocated by the majority of the OIPFG's central committee, was called the "Majority", and the left-wing, which was advocated by the minority of the central committee, was called the "Minority". While the "Majority" allied with the Islamic Republic, backed its reactionary policies and eventually changed into a bourgeois-liberal current, the Organisation of Iranian People's Fedaii Guerillas - (Minority) undertook to defend Marxism-Leninism, internationalism and to support the ideals and interests of the working class.