Organisation of Internationalist Communists of Greece

Organisation of Internationalist Communists of Greece Οργάνωση Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας
Founded	1934
Ideology	Communism Marxism Trotskyism
Political position	Far-left
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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 also 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 around Pandelis Pouliopoulos and Pastias Giatsopoulos, which was expelled at the third Regular Congress of the party in 1928. Originally, the expelled did not consider themselves to be a different movement to the Communist Party, nor did they seek to found a new political group; rather, their main goal was to return to the Party in order to, in their view, restore its original Leninist principles. This changed, however, in 1934, when all the communist parties in Nazi Germany were outlawed with the rise of National Socialism. Pouliopoulos and Giatsopoulos considered that the Communist Party of Greece had now abandoned its original position 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 Archeio-Marxist movement 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 councillor at the Ampelokipoi-Menemeni municipality. In 2012, the party participated at the May legislative elections, where it received the 0.03% of the vote.

Election results

Hellenic Parliament

Election	Hellenic Parliament					Rank	Government	Leader
	Votes	%	±pp	Seats won	+/−
May 2012	1,783	0.03%	New	0 / 300	New	25th	Extra-parliamentary	Collective leadership
Jun 2012	Did not contest			0 / 300	0	—	Extra-parliamentary
Jan 2015	1,854	0.03%	±0.00	0 / 300	0	18th	Extra-parliamentary
Sep 2015	2,433	0.04%	+0.01	0 / 300	0	18th	Extra-parliamentary
2019	1,576	0.03%	–0.01	0 / 300	0	18th	Extra-parliamentary
May 2023	1,950	0.03%	±0.00	0 / 300	0	30th	Extra-parliamentary
Jun 2023	1,379	0.03%	±0.00	0 / 300	0	23rd	Extra-parliamentary

European Parliament

European Parliament
Election	Votes	%	±pp	Seats won	+/−	Rank	Leader	EP Group
2014	3,045	0.05	New	0 / 21	New	38th	Collective Leadership	−
2019	4,803	0.08	+0.03	0 / 21	0	38th
2024	1,973	0.05	−0.03	0 / 21	0	29th

External links

• Official website