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The great October Socialist Revolution is carried out in Russia, under the guidance of the Bolshevik Party, which is headed by Lenin. It paved the way for the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

The Federation of Communist Youth Organizations of Greece (OKNE) is founded, the first youth organization of the Communist Party of Greece.

World War II breaks out.

Capitalism hides war within itself like a cloud hides thunder
V. I. Lenin

In June 1941, the conquest of Greek territory by the German occupation troops is completed. On the initiative of the KKE, the Workers’ National Liberation Front (ΕEAM) is established, in August 1941. The legendary National Liberation Front (EAM) is formed that year also, on 27 September, which rallied the overwhelming majority of the people and youth.

On 23 February 1943, the Unified National Youth Organization, EPON, is founded.

ELAS liberates Greece from the Nazi yoke. The conditions are emerging for the people to truly seize power. The Greek bourgeoisie and its international allies are not standing idly by, and they take advantage of the KKE’s lack of a revolutionary strategy. In December 1944, they massacre the people of Athens. The people’s movement, with the armed struggle of ELAS of Athens and Piraeus, for 33 days, writes one more glorious page, but fails to win...

The KKE chooses the conflict with the bourgeoisie. In October 1946, the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE), the greatest creation of the KKE, is founded. The struggle of DSE (1946-1949) is the high point of the class struggle in Greece.

Nikos Belogiannis, a member of the Central Committee of the KKE, is sentenced to death, and, despite the reactions of trade unions, workers, parties, scientific institutions from all over the world and many prominent personalities, such as Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Nazim Hikmet, Pablo Neruda, etc., he is executed in the Goudi camp, on 30 March 1952, 4:15 a.m., under the lights of the military trucks and jeeps, along with his comrades D. Batsis, H. Argiriadis and N. Kaloumenos.

The first Marathon Peace March is held. Police repression prevents the marathoners from completing the march. Amongst the few who make it to the finish line is the MP of EDA, Grigoris Lambrakis. A month later, on 22/5/1963, he is assassinated in Thessaloniki. 

The foundations are being laid for the regroupment of the movement. The KKE regroups its illegal organizations and rids its ranks of the opportunists who wanted to distort its revolutionary character. In March, the circulation of the illegal “Rizospastis” newspaper begins. In September 1968, the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) is founded. That decision fires enthusiasm and gives courage to the people.  At the same time, the publication of the illegal “Odigitis” magazine begins.

In July 1974, under the burden of the Cyprus tragedy – in which the Junta played the leading role – and the Turkish invasion and occupation that followed, and due to the needs of the system, the military regime collapsed as a result of the compromise between the US-NATO and the bourgeois political world, on the one hand, and the junta government, on the other. The form of the exercise of power changed but power remained in the hands of the shipowners, the industrialists, the bankers and the big businessmen. All the governments that have emerged since then, have served the capital and the international capitalist associations in which it participates.

The KKE achieves its “de facto” legalization.

Greece's accession to the EEC, later the European Union (EU), is completed. From the very first moment, the KKE and KNE warned and fought against the EU policy, which makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The counter-revolutionary overthrow of the socialist construction in the Soviet Union and other countries is reaching its peak. The KKE holds the flag high and defends socialism-communism, giving impetus to the development of the workers’ and people’s movement.

School-student demonstrations break out against the reforms of the then Minister of Education of the PASOK government, G. Arsenis. KNE plays the leading role in galvanizing the demands and collective action, and in orienting them against the policy that crushes the educational rights of young people, their lives and their future.

US-NATO troops invade Afghanistan. It is striking that only the cannabis and opium plantations are spared from the continuous bombing! KNE is at the forefront of the organization of the anti-imperialist struggle.

The international economic capitalist crisis erupts. The KKE and KNE are at the forefront of the struggle against the aftermath of the crisis, highlighting that the true way out of the crisis in favour of the people and the youth lies on the path of rupture and overthrow. 

The KKE and KNE are decisively confronting the system’s attempt to deceive the people and youth, at a time when SYRIZA comes to power to do its dirty work. From the very first moment, the KKE and KNE show that under capitalism there can be no pro-people’s government; their words are confirmed. They play the leading role in organizing the struggle for our contemporary rights.