Communist Party of Greece

Communist Party of Greece Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas
General Secretary	Dimitris Koutsoumpas
Founded	17 November [O.S. 4 November] 1918
Headquarters	145 Leof. Irakliou, 142 31 Athens (Nea Ionia), Greece
Newspaper	Rizospastis
Student wing	Panspoudastiki
Youth wing	Communist Youth of Greece
Trade Union Wing	All-Workers Militant Front
Ideology	Communism[1] Marxism–Leninism[1]
Political position	Far-left[2][3][4][5][6][7]
European affiliation	Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties
International affiliation	International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties International Communist Seminar
European Parliament group	Non-Inscrits[8]
Colours	Red
Parliament	26 / 300
European Parliament	2 / 21
Regions[9]	31 / 725
Website
kke.gr

The Communist Party of Greece (Greek: Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας; Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas, KKE) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Greece.^[1] It was founded in 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece (adopting its current name in November 1924). It is the oldest political party in modern Greek politics. The party played a significant role in the Greek resistance. The party's membership was largest in the mid-1940s. It participated in the Greek Civil War, but ended on the losing side and was banned until 1974.

The party took part in a coalition government in 1989 when it got more than 13% of the vote.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Nordsieck, Wolfram (2015). "Greece". Parties and Elections in Europe.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ Freedom House (5 September 2008). Freedom in the World 2008: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-7425-6598-2.
4. ↑ 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.^{[permanent dead link]}
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/id/ipa/05818.pdf
7. ↑ "[Focus] Far-left set for big gains in European Parliament elections". 24 March 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
8. ↑ "Statement of the Central Committee of the KKE on the stance of the KKE in the EU parliament".
9. ↑ The counselors of the Regions.