Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (Persian: سازمان آزادی‌بخش مردم افغانستان‎‎, Sazman e Azadibakhsh e Mardom e Afghanistan, SAMA) was a Maoist insurgent group operating in Afghanistan. It was the main leftist politico-military organization in Afghanistan that fought in opposition to the DRA regime and the Soviets. SAMA was led by Majid Kalakani, who intended to turn SAMA into a Maoist styled United Front of forces opposed to the Soviet backed PDPA. SAMA was a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist group with links to the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement although not all of its members were Maoists, it rejected the Three Worlds Theory in opposition to Faiz Ahmad's ALO. SAMA had its origins in the Shalleh-ye Javiyd Maoist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, it was a network of Maoist