The Front of the Greek Anticapitalist Left ( el, Αντικαπιταλιστική Αριστερή Συνεργασία για την Ανατροπή, ΑΝΤ.ΑΡ.ΣΥ.Α., translit=Antikapitalistiki Aristeri Synergasia gia tin Anatropi, ANT.AR.SY.A, literally "Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow") is a coalition of radical left political organisations in

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

. The Greek word ανταρσία ''antarsia'' (which is pronounced the same as the backronym ''Antarsya'') means "mutiny". ANTARSYA describes itself as "Front of the anticapitalist, revolutionary, communist left and radical ecology". ANTARSYA was founded on 22 March 2009 in Athens by 10 organisations and independent militants involved in the

Radical Left Front The Radical Left Front (, ''Metopo Rizospastikis Aristeras'', MERA) was a coalition of far-left political parties in Greece. The Radical Left Front was founded in 1999 by New Left Current (NAR), the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greec ...

(MERA) and

United Anti-Capitalist Left The United Anti-Capitalist Left ( el, Ενωτική Αντικαπιταλιστική Αριστερά (ΕΝ.ΑΝΤΙ.Α.), ''EN.ANTI.A.'') was a coalition of far-left political parties in Greece. The United Anti-Capitalist Left was founded in ...

(ENANTIA) with the exception of the Workers Revolutionary Party (ΕΕΚ). These organisations come from different left wing currents ranging from ex-

KKE The Communist Party of Greece ( el, Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, ''Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas'', KKE) is a political party in Greece. Founded in 1918 as the Socialist Labour Party of Greece and adopted its curren ...

and KKE Interior members to

Maoism Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Chi ...

and

Trotskyism Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...

Members

The 7 organisations which are members of ANTARSYA: *

Alternative Ecologists The Alternative Ecologists (), officially the Federation of Ecologists and Alternative Groups, was a federation of several groups created after the good performance of an autonomous electoral platform also called Alternative Ecologists in the 198 ...

Left Group {{Infobox political party , country = Greece , name = Left Group , native_name = {{Lang, el, Αριστερή Συσπείρωση , logo = , foundation = 2012 , split = Left Anti-capitalist Group , national = Front of the Greek Anticap ...

(ARIS) *

New Left Current The New Left Current ( el, Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα για την Κομμουνιστική Απελευθέρωση (ΝΑΡ), ''Neo Aristero Revma'', NAR) was formed in late 1989, mainly by former Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) members ...

(NAR) *

Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece–Spartacus The Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece–Spartacus ( (ΟΚΔΕ-Σπάρτακος)) is a Trotskyist group in Greece. It is the Greek section of the Fourth International, and takes the name Spartacus (Σπάρτακος) from its ...

, Greek section of the

Fourth International The Fourth International (FI) is a revolutionary socialist international organization consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, also known as Trotskyists, whose declared goal is the overthrowing of global capitalism and the establishment of wor ...

(OKDE-Spartakos) *

Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece The Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece or EKKE (Greek: Επαναστατικό Κομμουνιστικό Κίνημα Ελλάδας, ΕΚΚΕ) is a communist political party in Greece. Alliances In 1999, EKKE joined the Radical Left Fr ...

(EKKE) * Socialist Workers' Party (SEK) *Youth of Communist Liberation (nΚΑ) The

Organisation of Internationalist Communists of Greece 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 know ...

( el, Οργάνωση Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας , translit=Organosi Kommouniston Diethniston Elladas), although it participated in the foundation of ANTARSYA, left the coalition shortly afterwards on 18 May 2009. ANTARSYA is based on local assemblies of militants at city or neighbourhood-level with a central coordination committee in Athens. There are also periodically national assemblies of ANTARSYA. Left Recomposition (ARAN) and Left Anti-capitalist Group (ARAS) were part of the coalition till August 2015.

Ideology

ANTARSYA calls for exiting the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

and dropping the

euro The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens . ...

currency, defaulting on Greece's debt, and nationalization without compensation of major industries. The party also calls for a banning of lay-offs, a minimum salary of equivalent to 1,400 euros, a reduction of weekly working time to 35 hours without reduction of wages, the disarmament of the police, full political and social rights for immigrants, and an

ecosocialist Eco-socialism (also known as green socialism or socialist ecology) is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization. Eco-socialists generally believe that the expansi ...

answer to

ecological crisis An ecological or environmental crises occurs when changes to the environment of a species or population destabilizes its continued survival. Some of the important causes include: * Degradation of an abiotic ecological factor (for example, incr ...

Popular support and electoral results

ANTARSYA participated for the first time in elections in the European Parliament elections in June 2009. It took 21,951 votes or 0.43% of the votes. ANTARSYA also participated in the October 4, 2009 general elections presenting lists in every constituency. The party secured 24,737 votes, or 0.36% of those cast. It contested the

September 2015 Greek legislative election Legislative elections were held in Greece on Sunday, 20 September 2015, following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' announced resignation on 20 August. At stake were all 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament. This was a snap election, the sixth since ...

in a joint campaign with the Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK).

Regional elections

Hellenic Parliament

:¹ Participated in coalition with the Left Front Coalition (MARS) :² Participated in coalition with the Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK)

European Parliament

Notes

External links

Antarsya website
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