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The Communist Party of Greece (KKE)[b] is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece.[3] It was founded in 1918 as the Socialist Workers' Party of Greece (SEKE)[c] and adopted its current name in November 1924.[12] It is the oldest political party in modern Greek politics.[13]
The party was banned in 1936, but played a significant role in the Greek resistance and the Greek Civil War, and its membership peaked in the mid-1940s. Legalization of the KKE was restored following the fall of the Greek Junta in 1974. The party has achieved appointing MPs in all elections since its restoration in 1974, and took part in a coalition government in 1989 when it got more than 13% of the vote.
The KKE is a member of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP) and the European Communist Action (ECA).[14]
The KKE describes itself as a revolutionary party that wants to build a socialist-communist society through the dictatorship of the proletariat.[15] In addition to being a communist and conservative[16] party, it has also been described as left-wing nationalist,[17] economic nationalist,[18] and anti-imperialist.[19][20]
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- ^ a b c Sam, Bollier (1 May 2012). "A guide to Greece's political parties". Retrieved 25 December 2014.
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- ^ "KKE". VouliWatch. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
- ^ Nicolò Conti (4 December 2013). Party Attitudes Towards the EU in the Member States: Parties for Europe, Parties Against Europe. Routledge. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-317-93656-5. Archived from the original on 25 December 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
- ^ Bart van der Steen (1 September 2014). The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present. PM Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-60486-683-4. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020.
- ^ David Sanders; Pedro Magalhaes; Gabor Toka (26 July 2012). Citizens and the European Polity: Mass Attitudes Towards the European and National Polities. OUP Oxford. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-19-960233-9. Archived from the original on 25 December 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
- ^ March, Luke (2009). "Contemporary Far Left Parties in Europe: From Marxism to the Mainstream?" (PDF). IPG. 1: 126–143. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 June 2018 – via Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
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- ^ "European Communist Action | Founding Declaration". www.eurcomact.org. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ "Communist Party of Greece – Statement of the Central Committee of the KKE on the stance of the KKE in the EU parliament". inter.kke.gr. Archived from the original on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ Kyrkos, Vaggelis (3 November 2018). "Ποιοι ήταν αυτοί που ίδρυσαν το ΚΚΕ [Who were founders of the KKE]". Newsbeast (in Greek). Archived from the original on 4 November 2018.
- ^ Bollier, Sam (1 May 2012). "A guide to Greece's political parties". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021.
- ^ "European Communist Action's Founding Declaration". 27 November 2023. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "Καταστατικό". www.kke.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ^ Featherstone, Kevin; Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A. (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics. Oxford University Press. p. 324-325. ISBN 978-0-19-882510-4.
... conservatism , most evident in the KKE's adamantly negative position on soft drugs and its recent intervention concerning the ( SYRIZA ) Government's proposed legislation on same - sex marriage ( the Co - habitation Agreement )" ... "sometimes induces the party (KKE) towards conservatism" ... "In this light, Luke March's widely used typological category of "conservative communist" parties, at least in so far as KKE is concerned...
- ^ Halikiopoulou, Daphne; Vasilopoulou, Sofia; Nanou, Kyriaki (19 July 2010). "The Paradox of Nationalism: The Common Denominator of Radical Left and Radical Right Euroscepticism". SSRN. SSRN 1643722.
α) «Although KKE is not an anti-immigrant party (KKE, 2009: 14), it is still a party whose rhetoric is strongly nationalistic.» β) «Similarly to the KKE, this radical left nationalism can be understood as anti-imperialist, anti-collaborationist, anti-Western and economically isolationist.
- ^ Halikiopoulou, Daphne; Vasilopoulou, Sofia; Nanou, Kyriaki (19 July 2010). "The Paradox of Nationalism: The Common Denominator of Radical Left and Radical Right Euroscepticism". SSRN. SSRN 1643722.
α) The party suggests that the only economic route for Greece is one of self-sustenance which would entail complete nationalisation of the means of production and a return to more traditional means of economic development such as agriculture of specifically Greek products (KKE, 2007: 12). β)) «KKE's economic nationalism equates the EU with globalisation and globalisation with capitalism. The party suggests that the only economic route for Greece is one of self-sustenance which would entail complete nationalisation of the means of production and a return to more traditional means of economic development such as agriculture of specifically Greek products (KKE, 2007: 12).»
- ^ "Political parties of Greece". archive.wikiwix.com (in German). Retrieved 21 June 2025.
- ^ Eleftheriou, Costas (1 January 2015). "Greek anti-imperialism: contemporary era". Cope, Z. And I. Ness (Eds), Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, Pp. 341-346.
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