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Communist Liberation Κομμουνιστική Απελευθέρωση | |
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| Founded | February 2025 |
| Preceded by | New Left Current |
| Headquarters | Athens, Greece |
| Newspaper | Prin |
| Youth wing | Youth of Communist Liberation |
| Ideology | Communism Anti-capitalism New Left |
| National affiliation | Antarsya |
| Colours | Red |
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| www.kommap.gr/ | |
Communist Liberation (Greek: Κομμουνιστική Απελευθέρωση, KA) is a revolutionary communist organisation in Greece, founded in February 2025. It emerged from the transformation of the organisation New Left Current for the Communist Liberation (NAR), whose members and structures were incorporated into the new organisation. It fights for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, for workers’ power and democracy, and for the broader goal of communist liberation. Communist Liberation underlines the real need for a re-establishment of the communist liberating strategy, based on revolutionary strategy and tactics based on militant Marxism, Leninist analyses, experience of proletarian revolutions and movements up until today.
Historical background
editThe roots of the organisation lie in NAR, which was founded in 1990 by former members of the Communist Party of Greece and its youth wing after disagreements over the party's political direction and participation in government coalitions. However, the actual cause of such a decision and the creation of a new communist organisation was far deeper, in the political and ideological level, based on the real need for a new revolutionary - communist Left in Greece. For such a venture, a rupture with the traditional communist movement was necessary on the ideological, political, and structural level since this movement had followed a path of total disintegration and defeat. NAR developed as an independent current within the Greek far left for more than three decades before contributing to the creation of Communist Liberation in 2025.
Communist Liberation foundation, February 2025
editThe organisation's founding congress in Athens was held on February 14–16, 2025. Hundreds of delegates and members of the “Initiative for a Modern Communist Program and Party” from across Greece and abroad, participated in this event. Members of NAR (New Left Current) took part in the initiative’s committees and, alongside independent activists, decided on the organisation's founding principles, name, statute, and plan of action. In line with a decision made at its 5th and final Congress, NAR contributed all its political and material resources to the new organisation. Following the founding of Communist Liberation, NAR officially ceased to exist as a separate entity and became part of the new collective. Its name and symbols will no longer be used independently—its history, legacy, and achievements now live on within Communist Liberation.
Political positions
editCommunist Liberation seeks to give voice to the growing potential of the working class, the oppressed, and revolutionary forces to take a new leap forward in the struggle for a liberated, communist future—possibilities that are becoming more visible in the 21st century. Communist Liberation’s aim is to reassert the power of revolutionary, working- class politics in opposition to capitalism, shaping a victorious communist program and building the party needed to advance it. It is rooted in, and continues, the long tradition of labour, revolutionary, and communist struggles—both in Greece and globally—while learning from the successes and failures of past, taking into consideration the heroic but also the tragic moments, the victories and the defeats of the revolutionary movement.
According to Communist Liberation, the "reconstruction of the labour movement, the unification of the forces of the revolutionary Left, and the creation of a new communist party" are necessary. The objective of Communist Liberation is the overthrow of capitalism, the establishment of workers' power-democracy, and the creation of a communist system. The fundamental elements of workers' power-democracy include the abolition of capitalist ownership in the key sectors of the economy and workers' control of production.
Communist Liberation maintains that, as a result of developments and changes that have taken place over recent decades, capitalism—while retaining its basic imperialist characteristics—has entered a new stage, which it describes as "totalitarian capitalism". According to the positions of Communist Liberation, socialism was not implemented in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Instead, it argues that a class-based system was established in which the working class and the broader population achieved significant gains, but in which the state-party bureaucracy ultimately emerged as the dominant class. Consequently, according to Communist Liberation, it is necessary to undertake a process of re-establishing the concept of communism and the practice of the communist movement. Communist Liberation, from its very existence, holds a clear and strong political position against imperialism and war, and is an active member of the anti-imperialist movement, while at the same time it stands internationally in solidarity to the oppressed peoples all over the world. It also takes action in the environmental, anti-fascist, anti-racist, feminist movements. It opposes the European Union and NATO and advocates a break with and withdrawal of the country from these organisations. Communist Liberation supports proletarian internationalism. Members and supporters of the organisation have participated in international meetings of communist and left-wing political forces, as well as trade unions.
Labour Movement
editCommunist Liberation organises the vanguard militants of the labour and youth movement. It’s main purpose is the promotion of the unity of the radical left currents in every working place as well as the creation of permanent left groups that will intervene inside the unions. Today, Communist Liberation and Anti-capitalist Left collectives have elected representatives in dozens of primary trade unions all over Greece. A co-ordination of unions was formed during the great working struggles against the EU-IMF memoranda, and all the barbaric measures imposed. This co-ordination has managed during a series of great strikes to gather a major part of the working people that sought to resist, in rupture with the bureaucratic unions, which – consenting to the governmental policy – sought to de-escalate the struggles/strikes.
The political front
editCommunist Liberation participates in the “Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow” – Antarsya (“Mutiny” in Greek), the front of the anticapitalist, revolutionary, communist Left and radical ecology. This front was created in 2009, after the revolt of December 2008 in Greece, during the period of the capitalist crisis. Organisations of the Greek Anticapitalist Left and thousands of independent militants participate in ANTARSYA. ANTARSYA is based on local committees of militants on city or neighbourhood-level with a national central coordination committee. ANTARSYA participated to all the Parliament and European Parliament elections with the best results ever for an anti-capitalist left group in Greece. At regional elections ANTARSYA won seats in regional councils (including Attica, Central Macedonia which are the most populated regions in Greece). At municipal elections ANTARSYA supported municipal anticapitalist groups and won dozens of seats in local councils all over Greece.
Structure of Communist Liberation
editThe basic structure of Communist Liberation are the “base organisations”, inside the working places. It is also forming organisations on the local and the regional level. Communist Liberation holds conferences regularly when the Political Committee is elected. It is organising thematic conferences, as well as regional ones. Communist Liberation finances its political activities exclusively based on monthly contributions of its members and friends. It does not take nor would accept financing from entrepreneurs, the state or various EU programs.
Media and Festival
editCommunist Liberation publishes the weekly political newspaper Prin. PRIN was first published in 1989 and, for a period, appeared as a monthly magazine before being transformed into a newspaper in early 1991. In cooperation with nKA (Communist Liberation Youth), Communist Liberation organises the "Anaireseis Festival" every year in all major cities across Greece. It also maintains clubs in several cities throughout the country that host political discussions and cultural events under the name "Anaireseis Club".