Committee for the Initiative for Permanent Revolutionary Action

Committee for the Initiative for Permanent Revolutionary Action (in French: Comité d'Initiative pour une Action Révolutionnaire Permanente) was a radical Marxist-Leninist group in Senegal. CIARP was founded by the Blondin Diop brothers following a split in the Movement of Young Marxist-Leninists.

CIPRA
FoundedLate 1960s/Early 1970s
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Political positionLeft-wing

CIARP was dismantled by Senegalese police in July 1971. Omar Blondin Diop was sentenced to three years imprisonment. He died in 1973 during torture at the prison of Gorée Island.[1]

References

  • Zuccarelli, François. La vie politique sénégalaise (1940-1988). Paris: CHEAM, 1988.


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