Komala
Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, An Introduction
Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan was originally founded in fall 1969 by a group of Kurdish student leaders and intellectuals based in Tehran and major Kurdish cities in the Kurdish region of Iran. Due to a ban on assembly and association in Iran, newly established political organizations and even small student circles had to go into hiding and to organize memberships secretly.
Komala was no exception. Like all other opposition organizations of that time, Komala faced severe repression.