Radical Greek left

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Greece is a country where the left wing and communist parties are very strong.

Contents 1 History of Greek Left oriented politics 2 List of Parties 2.1 Political pressure groups 3 Greek People who are involved in Greek Left Politics

History of Greek Left oriented politics

In Greece in the 1940s after the German occupation there began a civil war with the communist army fighting the Greek right governments but the Greek right won. Many Greek lefts emigrated to Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Albania, and other socialist communist countries.

Some Greek regions are traditionally very radically communist, like Pireas, Nikaia, Koridalos, Renti, Nea Ionia, and nearby regions. Also some of the Greek islands have significant leftist populations, Crete and Ikaria for example. The Greek mountain regions where land owners live are usually right-wingers.

List of Parties

• KKE, radical communist sovietist party of the Greek exterior, gains 5% of the Greek voters
• KKE-ML, traditional communist Marxist-Leninist
• M-L KKE, Marxist-Leninist traditional communist party of the Greek interior
• DHKKI, popular mainstream leftist patriotic ecological non-radical, gained 2% of the Greek voters, now disbanded
• Synaspismos (Coalition), popular radical leftist ecological anti-neolibertarian modern coalition, gains 3% of the Greek voters
• ASKE, radical left communist
• Anticapitalistic Coalition, radical revolutionist communist
• ENKE, coalition of the centre
• OIKOLOGOI Enallaktikoi, ecological
• PASOK, mainstream popular socialist euro-democratic omni-party with strong leftist bases and tradition, gains about 40-45% of the Greek voters

Political pressure groups

In addition to the political parties there are many political pressure groups like these:

• GSEE, Greek Workers' General Federation
• ADEDY, Federation of public sector employees
• PAME, radical leftist anti-capitalistic labour union

Greek People who are involved in Greek Left Politics

• Mikis Theodorakis, composer with strong influence over the Greek society, supporting Synaspismos, offered to become President of Greece. His songs have lyrics like 'you the poor people, don't forget the fascism and the darkness'
• Manolis Glezos, the WW II who tore down the Nazi flag flying from the Acropolis, a prominent politician and grassroots democracy activist.
• Aleka Papariga, bilingual communist speaking Greek and Russian, general secretariat of KKE
• Alekos Alavanos, president of Synaspismos
• Nikos Konstantopoulos, former President of Synaspismos, major leftist politician
• Dimitris Tsovolas former PASOK politician, founder of DHKKI, disbanded DHKKI in 2004.
• Kostas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece until 2004, former PASOK president, promoting a European style modern socialism
• Georgios Papandreou, PASOK president, promoting a mainstream all-encompassing political ideals
• Andreas Papandreou, old PASOK president and Prime Minister, leftist-socialist, opposed NATO