When General J. Metaxas established an openly fascist dictatorship in Greece in August 1936, the CPG was outlawed.During World War II (1939–45) the CPG took the initiative in creating the National Liberation Front (EAM) in September 1941 and the People’s Liberation Army (ELAS) in December 1941. KKE withdrew from Synaspismos in June 1991, although some people decided to leave KKE and remain in Synaspismos. For more statements and articles by Communist and Workers' Parties please click here.

After the first weeks, it was obvious that British policy in the region was against these goals as KKE and EAM were controlling 98% of Greece and they were afraid of the foundation of new socialist state.According to EAM figures, in the few months after the Treaty of Varkiza the anticommunist violence on the Greek mainland had resulted in the imprisonment or exile of 100,000 ELAS partisans and EAM members, the deaths of 3,000 EAM officials and members, the rape of between 200 and 500 women, the burning of houses and other acts of violence.Large groups had returned to their partisan hideouts in the mountains and gradually formed smaller partisan units. On the one side was the British and American-backed Greek government, led by In December 1947, KKE and its allies that participated in the Civil War formed the On 29 January 1949, the Greek National Army appointed General On 28 August 1949, the Civil War in Greece ended with the DSE forces defeated militarily and politically and KKE entered a new phase in its history.After the Civil War, the KKE was outlawed and most of its prominent members had to flee Greece, go underground or provide a signed declaration that they renounced communism to avoid prosecution as under Law 504, issued in 1948, a large number of KKE members were either prosecuted, jailed or exiled. The Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist) (Greek: Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας (μαρξιστικό-λενινιστικό), ΚΚΕ (μ-λ), Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (marxistiko-leninistiko), KKE (m-l)), is a Maoist communist political party in Greece. Ignoring it, as most of the Left is content to do, means ignoring a force with important roots in the trade union movement and the longest history of all surviving Greek parties. 20, no. Prominent members of the KKE were tried and executed, including During this period of illegality, the KKE supported the In 1968, a crisis escalated between KKE's two main factions. And that is where our own difference lies.

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The working people's and the crowning achievement for today's fight should be and shall be a new Greece based on work, freedom, and liberated from any foreign imperialist dependence, with a truly pan-popular culture".According to KKE's archives, the "Old Central Committee" had been denounced for its stance on the war issue and today KKE claims that the majority of the party membership had not followed the decision of being neutral in case of an invasion.On 7 December 1940, the "Old Central Committee" issued a manifesto addressed "to all the workers and public servants, to all soldiers, sailors and airmen, to patriot officers, to the mothers, fathers, wives and children of the fighters and the workers of all neighboring countries", in which it describes the war as a game of the imperialist powers, headed by the British. The Bureau of the Central Committee, formed at that time, was the provisional governing body until February 1957.