The Organization of Internationalist Communists of Greece (

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: Οργάνωση Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας, ''Organosi Kommouniston Diethniston Elladas'') is a

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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 The Communist Party of Greece (, ΚΚΕ; ''Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas'', KKE) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece. It was founded in 1918 as the Socialist Workers' Party of Greece (SEKE) and adopted its current name in Novem ...

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

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principles. This changed, however, in 1934, when all the communist parties in

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were outlawed with the rise of National Socialism. Pouliopoulos and Giatsopoulos considered that the Communist Party of Greece had now abandoned its original position that the Stalinist communist parties and the Third International could apply revolutionary

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in Greece. Thus, in 1934, the Spartacus League (Σπάρτακος; led by Pouliopoulos) and the ( Archeio-Marxist group) Leninist Opposition to the KKE – LAKKE (Λενινιστική Αντιπολίτευση του ΚΚΕ, ΛΑΚΚΕ; previously led by

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until 1933) were united and formed OKDE. In 1937, on the initiative of Pouliopoulos, Neos Dromos merged with OKDE to briefly form the United OKDE (Ενιαία ΟΚΔΕ, ΕΟΚΔΕ; EOKDE, 1937–1942). In September 1938, Pablo represented Pouliopoulos's EOKDE at the founding conference of the

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. In May 1943, the majority of the EOKDE founded the Party of Internationalist Communists of Greece (Κόμμα Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας, ΚΚΔΕ; KKDE), which in 1945 participated in the founding of the Workers' Internationalist Party of Greece (Εργατικό Διεθνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, ΕΔΚΕ; EDKE). In July 1946, EDKE and Agis Stinas'

DEKE The Workers Revolutionary Party (, ''Ergatiko Epanastatiko Komma'', EEK) is a Trotskyist communist political party in Greece, taking part in the elections independently, since the departure from Radical Left Front (MERA, ΜΕΡΑ) coalition in s ...

were merged into KDKE.Nikolaos P. Melingonis
"Archeio-Marxism in the Interwar Period"
2019, p. 40. KDKE was dissolved in 1967 (when the Regime of the Colonels came to power) and was refounded in 1974 as OKDE. In 1985, some members of OKDE left the party and formed the Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece–Spartacus. OKDE supported the Radical Left Front at the 2007 legislative elections. In the 2010 local elections, the party elected one municipal councillor at the Ampelokipoi-Menemeni municipality. In 2012, the party participated at the May legislative elections, where it received the 0.03% of the vote.

Election results

Hellenic Parliament

European Parliament

References

External links

* 1934 establishments in Greece Communist parties in Greece Political parties established in 1934 Trotskyist organizations in Greece {{Greece-party-stub