The Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece or EKKE (Greek: Επαναστατικό Κομμουνιστικό Κίνημα Ελλάδας, ΕΚΚΕ) is an organization of the Greek marxism-leninism far left.
Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece Επαναστατικό Κομμουνιστικό Κίνημα Ελλάδας | |
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| Founded | 1970 |
| Headquarters | Athens |
| Newspaper | Kokkino Deltio |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism Maoism Anti-revisionism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow |
| Colours | Red |
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| Website | |
| http://www.ekke.net.gr/ | |
It was founded in 1970 by Greeks from Western Europe, mainly students, who considered conservative and timid the political positions and practice of existing marxist - leninist greek organisations (OMLE etc.), projecting as their immediate strategic goal "Laocracy", with socialist characteristics.
Through the formation and activity of the "Anti-Fascist Anti-Imperialist Student Party Greece" (AASPE),[1] the EKKE gained access to the student movement and contributed to the development of the mass anti-dictatorship student movement and the revolt of the Polytechnic. Members of the EKKE were arrested in early 1974, tortured and imprisoned. After the fall of the dictatorship, he became active in the student sector, supported the factory trade union movement, while significant activity in the support for strikers, in districts facing emergency problems, etc.
Participated in the first post-dictatorial elections he took 0.03%. In the following ones in 1977 he took about 0,1%.[2]
The RCP adopted the Chinese Maoist "three worlds theory", according to which the number one danger is the Soviet social-imperialist superpower. On the basis of this theory, the RCP identified as the main enemy of the movement and called for a front against the two superpowers, giving the KKE the role of the Soviet enemy. This policy, its support for the new China's new leadership after Mao's death and the persecution of his collaborators in the Cultural Revolution, the insistence on projecting the danger of the outbreak of a Greek-Turkish war, and even with the instigation of the USSR, but also the fatigue of much of its potential from intensive activism, at a time of the Greek and international Marxism Leninism current, created problems in its ranks. There were two successive departures of members, in 1979 and 1980, resulting in the loss of the majority of its potential.[3]
Alliances
editIn 1999, EKKE joined the Radical Left Front (MERA) political coalition and in 2009 Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "GIA TO METAPOLITEUTIKO FOITITIKO KINIMA" ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΜΕΤΑΠΟΛΙΤΕΥΤΙΚΟ ΦΟΙΤΗΤΙΚΟ ΚΙΝΗΜΑ [FOR THE POSTCULTURE STUDENT MOVEMENT]. Alexatos Giorgos.
- ^ p. 171 Historical Dictionary of the Greek Labour Movement
- ^ p. 171 Historical Dictionary of the Greek Labour Movement
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