Organisation of Internationalist Communists of Greece

Organisation of Internationalist Communists of Greece Οργάνωση Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας
Founded	1934
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism Trotskyism
Political position	Left-wing
Website
http://www.okde.gr/
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The Organization of Internationalist Communists of Greece (Greek: Οργάνωση Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας, Organosi Kommouniston Diethniston Elladas) is a Greek trotskyist political party. It is widely known by its acronym ΟΚΔΕ (OKDE).

History

The historical roots of OKDE can be traced to the Left Opposition of the Communist Party of Greece (consisted by Pandelis Pouliopoulos and Pastias Giatsopoulos), which was expelled at the third Regular Congress of the party in 1928. Both of them did not considered themselves as a different faction of the Communist Party and they did not want to create a new political party. Their main goal was to return at the party through the opposition, in order to restore, as they believed, the party at its original leninist principles. This was changed, though, in 1934, when all the communist parties in Nazi Germany were outlawed with the rise of National Socialism. Pouliopoulos and Giatsopoulos thought that the Communist Party of Greece left its original positions and that the Stalinist communist parties and the Third International could apply revolutionary marxism in Greece. Thus, the Spartacus League, along with syndicalist groups which left the Archive of Marxism and others were united and formed OKDE. In 1985, some members left the party and formed the Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece–Spartacus. The party supported the Radical Left Front at the 2007 legislative elections. In the 2010 local elections, the party elected one municipal coulcillor at the Ampelokipoi-Menemeni municipality. In 2012, the party participated at the May 2012 legislative elections, where it received the 0.03% of the votes.

External links

The official website of OKDE