Greek Left ( Greek : Ελληνική Αριστερά , Elliniki Aristera, abbreviated EAR) was a Greek political party .
5-577: It emerged, in January 1987, from the split in the Communist Party of Greece (Interior) into the Communist Party of Greece (Interior)-Renewing Left and the Greek Left. Its ideology was Eurocommunism . In December 1988, Greek Left signed a common report with the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) about the current political situation. This was the first step in the creation of Synaspismos ,
10-623: A coalition of parties, in February 1989. The common report was written by Mimis Androulakis and Giannis Dragasakis of the KKE and Grigoris Giannaros and Dimitrios Papadimoulis of the Greek Left. It was published in Rizospastis on 8 December 1988. Greek Left was the main power in Synaspismos, after the KKE. Its leader was Leonidas Kyrkos and its general secretary, from 1989 to 1992,
15-808: The Italian Communist Party (PCI), adopting a Eurocommunist perspective. KKE Interior was greatly active in the struggle against the Regime of the Colonels that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 through the Panhellenic Antidictatorial Front (abbrev. ΠΑΜ ) and its youth wing, the Greek Communist Youth – Rigas Feraios . During the period that followed the overturn of the Regime of the Colonels, known as
20-576: Was Fotis Kouvelis . The Greek Left participated with Synaspismos in three parliamentary elections, once in the local elections and once in the elections for the European Parliament in 1989. In 1992, it merged into Synaspismos when the latter transformed from a coalition to a single party. Communist Party of Greece (Interior) The Communist Party of Greece, Interior ( Greek : Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας Εσωτερικού ), usually abbreviated as KKE Interior (Greek: ΚΚΕ Εσωτερικού ),
25-609: Was a Eurocommunist party existing between 1968 and 1987 in Greece . The party was formed after the Communist Party of Greece ( KKE ) suffered a major split following the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the suppression of the Prague Spring . KKE Interior essentially broke ties with KKE's ideological supervision by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later established bonds with parties such as
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