From Underground Guerrillas to Exiled Politicians: Komala’s Five Decades of Struggle and Splintering
Emergence and Initial Formation in the 1970s The “Komala” group (short for Komeleya Şorrişgêrrî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistanî Êran, meaning the Revolutionary Organization of the Working Class of Iranian Kurdistan) was secretly founded in the late 1960s. According to some accounts, Abdollah…