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LAKKE
The Organization of Internationalist Communists of Greece (Greek: Οργάνωση Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας, ''Organosi Kommouniston Diethniston Elladas'') is a Greek Trotskyist political party. It is also known by its acronym OKDE (ΟΚΔΕ). History The historical roots of OKDE can be traced to the Left Opposition of the Communist Party of Greece around Pandelis Pouliopoulos and Pastias Giatsopoulos, which was expelled at the Third Regular Congress of the party in 1928. Originally, the expelled did not consider themselves to be a different movement to the Communist Party, nor did they seek to found a new political group; rather, their main goal was to return to the Party in order to, in their view, restore its original Leninist principles. This changed, however, in 1934, when all the communist parties in Nazi Germany were outlawed with the rise of National Socialism. Pouliopoulos and Giatsopoulos considered that the Communist Party of Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Pablo
Michel Pablo (; ; 24 August 1911, Alexandria, Khedivate of Egypt, Egypt – 17 February 1996, Athens) was the pseudonym of Michalis N. Raptis (), a Trotskyist leader of Greek origin. Education Pablo studied at the National Technical University of Athens and continued at the University of Paris, specializing in urban planning. Early activism Pablo joined the Trotskyist faction of the Archeio-Marxist party KOMLEA in 1928. In 1930, a group led by him split from KOMLEA and formed the Communist Unification Group (Κομμουνιστική Ενωτική Ομάδα, ΚΕΟ, KEO), which had Trotskyist leanings and renounced Archeio-Marxism. KEO, after failing to merge with the Trotskyist group Spartacus League (Greece), Spartacus League (led by Pandelis Pouliopoulos), was renamed in 1932—following the involvement of Agis Stinas, who had been expelled from the Communist Party of Greece, KKE—to LAKKE. In 1933, Stinas left the group, and in 1934, LAKKE merged with Spartacus to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neos Dromos
Archeio-Marxism () was a radical left political movement active during the interwar period in Greece (mainly from 1921 to 1934). The main motto of its supporters was "first education and then action" ("πρώτα μόρφωση μετά δράση"), and they were against mass demonstrations and unionism. They were named after the ''Archive of Marxism'' () magazine, which was published in 1923–1925 and then in 1927–1928. History In 1921, a political movement emerged within SEKE (the precursor of KKE) under the leadership of Frangiskos Tzoulatis (one of the co-founders of the Socialist Youth of Athens). This movement, called the First Core (Πρώτος Πυρήνας), acquired a specific structure and objectives during the period 1922–1923. In April 1924, the First Core group was expelled from SEKE. In 1926, Tzoulatis would resign from the leadership of the movement to cede his position to Dimitris Giotopoulos, despite the fact that the latter had not participated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandelis Pouliopoulos
Pandelis Pouliopoulos (; 10 March 19006 June 1943) was a Greek communist, anti-fascist, and one-time general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He stood for the internationalist and revolutionary character of the communist movement. He is among the founders of the Trotskyist movement in Greece. Biography Born in Thebes, Greece, Pouliopoulos enrolled at Athens University in 1919 to study law. In 1919, he joined the Socialist Labour Party of Greece (SEKE), the forerunner of the Communist Party of Greece. In 1920, he was conscripted to fight in the Greek-Turkish war of 1919–1922. He was arrested in 1922 for anti-war activity but was freed with the end of the war. From 1923 to 1925, Pouliopoulos was prominent in the war veterans' movement and was elected president of the Panhellenic Federation of Veterans (Πανελλήνια Ομοσπονδία Παλαιών Πολεμιστών και Θυμάτων Στρατών) in 1924. In 1924, he was a party delega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agis Stinas
Agis Stinas (; 1900–1987), real name Spyros Priftis (Σπύρος Πρίφτης), was a Greek politician. He was an executive of the Communist Party of Greece and then executive of various small Trotskyist parties. During the Axis occupation of Greece, he promoted a revolutionary defeatist position. He was the political mentor of Cornelius Castoriadis. Biography He was born in the village Startylas in Corfu. In 1918, he became a member of the Socialist Workers' Party of Greece (SEKE), later renamed the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He took part in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) as an active party member. He was sentenced to death, but instead he was imprisoned. During the 1926 Greek parliamentary election, he was a parliamentary candidate in the Corfu region. In 1931, he was expelled from the party. In 1932–33, he was a member of LAKKE party (led by Michel Pablo; a splinter group from the Archeio-Marxist/Trotskyist party KOMLEA). In 1935, he joined the Bolshevik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 2012 Greek Legislative Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on Sunday, 6 May 2012 to elect all 300 members to the Hellenic Parliament. It was scheduled to be held in late 2013, four years after the previous election; however, an early Elections in Greece, election was stipulated in the coalition agreement of November 2011 which formed the Cabinet of Lucas Papademos, Papademos Cabinet. The coalition comprised both of Greece's traditional major political parties, PASOK on the left and New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy (ND) on the right, as well as the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS). The aim of the coalition was to relieve the Greek government-debt crisis by ratifying and implementing decisions taken with other Eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a month earlier. The elections delivered massive losses for the parties of the outgoing government, resulting in a Realigning election, realignment of Greek politics. PASOK, who won the 2009 election in a relative lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ampelokipoi-Menemeni
Ampelokipoi–Menemeni () is a municipality of the Thessaloniki Urban Area in the regional unit of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is in Ampelokipoi. Municipality The municipality Ampelokipoi–Menemeni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units: * Ampelokipoi * Menemeni Population Neighborhoods Municipal Unit of Ampelokipoi * Eptalofos * Akriton * Kaistri * Skeparni * Filipou Municipal Unit of Menemeni * Nea Menemeni * Vosporos * Agios Nektarios Monuments Municipal Unit of Ampelokipoi * Monument of the Greeks of Asia Minor. * Monument of the National Resistance (Eleftherias Street). * Statue of the Mother of the People (Eptalofos Square). * "Zeitenlik" WW1 Allied Cemetery and Museum of the French quarter of the cemetery. * Monument of the last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos (Dimokratias Square). Municipal Unit of Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Greek Local Elections
The 2010 Greek local elections were held on 7 November 2010 (first round) and 14 November 2010 (second round) to elect representatives to Greece's restructured local authorities, comprising 13 regions and 325 municipalities. Background Traditionally, candidates at local elections do not run under the official name of any party as the constitution only foresees the participation of electoral lists (or "combinations") and not parties. Despite this theoretical independence and distinction, for all practical purposes most candidates run as local front organisations for political parties. The election also comes at a time of increasing unrest in Greece following numerous bombs being sent to foreign embassies, as well protests against austerity measures forced by the EU and IMF in order for Greece to receive external financial support. Issues With the economy being touted as the mandate sought in the election Prime Minister George Papandreou said he would dissolve the national par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Greek Legislative Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on Sunday, 16 September 2007 to elect the 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament. The leading party for a second term was New Democracy under the leadership of Kostas Karamanlis with 42%, followed by George Papandreou and PASOK with 38%. New Democracy managed to secure an absolute but narrow majority of 152 out of 300 seats in parliament. The populist Popular Orthodox Rally entered the parliament for the first time with 10 seats, while the parties of the left, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and Syriza, enjoyed a significant increase in their vote share. KKE received 8% of the votes (up from 6%) and won 22 seats (from 12), while Syriza received 5% of the votes (up 2 pp) and 14 seats. The difference of nearly four percentage points between the first two parties resulted in George Papandreou announcing that he would seek reaffirmation of his party leadership, with Evangelos Venizelos and Kostas Skandalidis also declaring candidac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellenic Parliament
The Parliament of the Hellenes (), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (), is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Greece, located in the Old Royal Palace, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens. The parliament is the supreme democratic institution that represents the citizens through an elected body of Members of Parliament (MPs). It is a unicameral legislature of 300 members, elected for a four-year term. From 1844–1863 and from 1927–1935, the parliament was Bicameralism, bicameral with an upper house (the Greek Senate, Senate; ) and a lower house (the Chamber of Deputies; ). Several important Greek statesmen have served as the speaker of the Hellenic Parliament. History Semi-constitutional monarchy, 1843–1862 The first national parliament of the independent Greek state was established in 1843, after the 3 September 1843 Revolution, 3 September Revolution, which forced Otto of Greece, King Otto to grant a Greek Constitution of 1844, constitution. The con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical Left Front
The Radical Left Front (, ''Metopo Rizospastikis Aristeras'', MERA) was a coalition of political organizations and parties of the anti-capitalist, communist Left in Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th .... The Radical Left Front was founded in 1999 by New Left Current (NAR), the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece (EKKE), the Trotskyist Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK), Youth of Communist Liberation (NKA), Independent Communist Organization of Serres (AKOS) and independent left activists. In 2004, Alternative Ecologists affiliated itself to the Front.In March 2009 , all components of ME.R.A. except for the E.E.K., together with the components of EN.ANTI.A. and unaffiliated fighters, founded ANT.AR.SY.A. After the formation of ANT.AR.SY.A., ME. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organization Of Communist Internationalists Of Greece–Spartacus
The Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece–Spartacus or OKDE–Spartacus ( (ΟΚΔΕ-Σπάρτακος), ''Organosi Kommouniston Diethniston Kommouniston Elladas - Spartakos'') is a Trotskyist group in Greece. It is the Greek section of the Fourth International, and takes the name Spartacus (Σπάρτακος) from its magazine, which has been in various the name of the Fourth Internationalist journal in Greece. Elections In the 2007 Greek legislative election it was a central component in the United Anti-Capitalist Left electoral coalition. Since 2009 it has been a member of Front of the Greek Anticapitalist Left (ANTARSYA) coalition. In the Greek legislative election, 2012 it broke with the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International which decided to switch support from ANTARSYA to Syriza The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance (), best known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA ( ; ; a pun on the Greek adverb , meaning "from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
