Communist Organization of Greece
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The Communist Organization of Greece (Greek: Κομμουνιστική Οργάνωση Ελλάδας, Komounistiki Organosi Elladas, KOE) is a minor Maoist Greek political party, founded in 2003.
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[edit] Origins
The KOE has its origins in the Organisation of Marxists-Leninists of Greece (OMLE) which, supporting the political beliefs of Mao Zedong, split away from the Communist Party of Greece in 1964.
Its founding members were part of the Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist) (KKE (m-l), which experienced a major crisis and splits in the early 1980s.
In 1984, the people who later went on to found the KOE established A/synechia, an effort aiming at rebuilding the communist movement on a new basis. The most prominent member of these people was Yannis Hotzeas (died on October 24, 1994), who was one of the founders of the OMLE and the KKE (m-l).
[edit] Paper
The party paper is called Aristera! ("Left!") [1]. Aristera! was first published in February 1996, as a monthly paper. It is now published biweekly.
[edit] Elections
In the Greek legislative elections of 2000, the KOE and the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece ran a joint ticket, under the name "Aristera!", gathering 5,866 votes.
KOE affiliated itself to the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) on June 20, 2007. The best scores of KOE's candidates in SYRIZA joint ticket in the Greek legislative elections of 2007, have been marked in Aitoloakarnania (1st position, 1,126 votes), Achaia (2nd position, 2,628 votes), Thessaloniki (2nd position, 2,165 votes), Larissa (3rd position, 1,294 votes), Attica (3rd position, 4,022 votes) and Piraeus (3rd position, 1,958 votes).
[edit] Front organizations
The workers' front organization of KOE is called "Union of the Working People", and the students' front "Left Formations" - the latter took the initiative to found the "Left Unity", which regroups several left students' organizations supporting the line of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).
[edit] International Relations
The Communist Organization of Greece is member of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) [2], founding member of the Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties of the Balkans (CCWPB) [3], founding member of the Anti-imperialist Space in the European Social Forum.
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