The Socialist Workers Party in Greece (

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: Σοσιαλιστικό Εργατικό Κόμμα, ΣΕΚ; translit. ''Sosialistikó Ergatikó Kómma'', SEK) is an affiliate of the

International Socialist Tendency The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an Political international, international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917–2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (UK), Socialist Wor ...

(IST). It is the second largest organisation in IST after the British Socialist Workers Party.

History

SEK originated among a group of exiled Greek students in London, led by Maria Styllou and Panos Garganas, and a group of Greek students during the occupations of universities against the

Greek junta The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a Right-wing politics, right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels with CIA backing 1967 Greek coup d'état, overthrew the caretaker gove ...

. In the beginning, they organised themselves as the Socialist Revolution Organisation (OSE; Οργάνωση Σοσιαλιστικής Επανάστασης, ΟΣΕ). While in London, they developed relations with the International Socialists led by

Tony Cliff Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, ; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Ottoman Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen name of Tony Cliff. A fo ...

and were won to the politics of the IST. In the early 1980s, the OSE developed closer links with the IST, grew fairly rapidly, and in 1997 changed their name to the Socialist Workers Party. In 2001, a minority left to form the Internationalist Workers' Left (DEA) organisation. SEK publishes a weekly newspaper, ''Workers Solidarity'' (''Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη''), and a bi-monthly magazine, ''Socialism from Below'' (''Σοσιαλισμός από τα Κάτω''). A distinct presence is maintained by SEK students, who sign as SEK on Campus (ΣΕΚ στις Σχολές). The SEK is active in a number of organisations, including the Greek "Stop the War Coalition" (Σταματήστε τον Πόλεμο) and "United Against Racism and the Threat of Fascism" (Κίνηση Ενωμένοι Ενάντια στο Ρατσισμό και τη Φασιστική Απειλή, ΚΕΕΡΦΑ). In the 2006 Greek local elections for Athens-Piraeus Super Prefecture, the SEK supported candidates under the banner "Συμμαχία για την Υπερνομαρχία" (''Symmachia gia tin Ypernomarchia'', "Union for the Super Prefecture") which took 1.32%. In October 2023, SEK released a statement declaring their support for Palestine in the

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Electoral results and tactics

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://sekonline.gr
Greek Stop the War Coalition
1997 establishments in Greece Communist parties in Greece Far-left politics in Greece International Socialist Tendency Political parties established in 1997 Trotskyist organizations in Greece