Progressive Youth Organization (Afghanistan) was an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist organization in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

. The organization emerged from the New Democratic Current (''Jerian-e Demokratik-e Navin''), a leftist movement that had been established by

Abdulrahim Mahmudi ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (ALA-LC romanization of ) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words ''ʻabd'', ''al-Raḥīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the List of Arabic theoph ...

, Abdulhadi Mahmudi, Akram Yari and Seddiq Yari. The New Democratic Current founded the PYO in October 1965. The group brought out the publication '' Shalleh-ye Javid'' ('Eternal Flame'), and its followers were generally known as ''sholayes''. PYO never made its existence or name known to the public. PYO was dissolved in 1972.

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Youth organizations established in 1965 Organizations disestablished in 1972 1965 establishments in Afghanistan 1972 disestablishments in Afghanistan Anti-revisionist organizations Maoist organisations in Afghanistan Youth organisations based in Afghanistan Youth wings of communist parties {{Afghanistan-party-stub