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  Greece by net - GR Directory, Overview
Greece has a mixed capitalist economy with the public sector accounting for half of GDP and with per capita GDP 70% of the leading euro-zone economies.
Greece is a major beneficiary of EU aid, equal to about 3.3% of GDP.
University of Patras Medical Department - Amongst the newest health institutions in Greece it is one of the five largest hospitals in the country.
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  Communist Organization of Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Organization of Greece (Greek: Κομμουνιστική Οργάνωση Ελλάδας - Komounistiki Organosi Elladas, KOE) originates in the Organisation of Marxists-Leninists of Greece (OMLE) that split away from the Communist Party of Greece in 1964 supporting the political beliefs of Mao Zedong.
Its founding members were part of the Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist), which passed through a major crisis and splits in the early 1980s.
The Communist Organization of Greece was formally founded in early 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communist_Organization_of_Greece   (208 words)

  
 Greece. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Central Greece, situated N of the Gulf of Corinth, includes the low-lying plains of Thessaly, Attica, and Boeotia; Mt. Olympus (Ólimbos; 9,570 ft/2,917 m), the highest point in Greece; and Athens.
In the Balkan Wars (1912–13) Greece obtained SE Macedonia and W Thrace; the frontier with newly independent Albania gave a larger part of Epirus to Greece, but neither country was satisfied, and the area remained in dispute until 1971, when Greece, at least temporarily, dropped its claims to N Epirus.
Greece was a charter member of the UN, and in 1951 it was admitted to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
www.bartleby.com /65/gr/Greece.html   (4145 words)

  
 Greece (10/06)
Greece has been a major net beneficiary of the EU budget; in 2004, EU transfers accounted for 3.6 percent of GDP and are estimated to have been approximately 3.2 percent of GDP in 2005.
Greece was adamantly opposed to the use of "Macedonia" by the government in Skopje, claiming that the term is intrinsically Greek and should not be used by a foreign country.
Greece and Turkey have unresolved disagreements regarding the Aegean maritime boundary, the treatment of the Orthodox Church and Greek minority in Istanbul, and the Muslim (primarily ethnic Turkish) minority in western Thrace.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3395.htm   (4278 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
The mainland portion of Greece comprises the regions of Thrace and Macedonia in the N; Epirus, Thessaly (Thessalía), and Central Greece in the central section; and, in the S, the Peloponnesus (Pelopónnisos), a peninsula, which is connected to the rest of the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth.
Education is free and compulsory in Greece for all children between the ages of 6 and 15.
The 1975 constitution of Greece guarantees the right to “freely establish and participate in political parties.” The largest parties in the mid-1990s were the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, known as Pasok; the center-right New Democracy party; the nationalist Political Spring; and the Communist Party of Greece.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/greece.html   (3289 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Greece
Greece is a small country by the Mediterranean Sea where the first European civilization began more than 2,000 years ago.
Several Greek resistance organizations were founded, including the communist National Liberation Front in September 1941, the republican National Republican Greek League in the summer of 1942 and National and Social Liberation in the summer of 1943.
In early 2000, Greece’s Supreme Court upheld an award of 9.5 billion drachmas to relatives of 218 villagers massacred by the Nazis at Distomo on June 10, 1944.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Greece.html   (5467 words)

  
 Greece: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
Greece reached the peak of its glory in the 5th century B.C., but the Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.) weakened the nation, and it was conquered by Philip II and his son Alexander the Great of Macedonia, who considered themselves Greek.
Greece was a charter member of the UN and became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1951.
Greece's changing political landscape: although national elections are still a year and half off, politicians are honing their messages.......
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107588.html   (1202 words)

  
 Greek Democracy of Personal View considered Crime in Greece
The direct democracy in ancient Greece was equality among citizens, liberty, and respect for the law and justice.
The organization recommends needed measures to be taken and in particular the Supreme Commissioner for the minority issues of.
Greece continues to be one of the few countries within the European Union (EU) that has consistently brought criminal defamation suits against journalists.
www.macedoniainfo.com /macedonia/papadakis.htm   (1234 words)

  
 Greek Civil War - Military Photos
Both the Yugoslav and Albanian Communist regimes, which had come to power through their own efforts and were not Soviet puppets, supported the KKE fighters, but the Soviet Union remained ambivalent.
Communists also took violently many children in order to sent them to the communist ''democracies''.The Greek goverment made official to OHE,but nothing was done.5.000 Albanians also fought with the communist side.
Greece on the other hand is in the fl list of countries that does not recognises minority rights or minorities at all.
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=87875   (2303 words)

  
 Greece travel guide - Wikitravel
Greece (Ελλάς, Hellas) [1] is a country in eastern Southern Europe on the Balkan peninsula, with extensive coastlines and islands in the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean Seas.
Greece's historical sights are just as varied; the country is littered with just as many medieval churches and castles as classical ruins and temples.
Greece is one of the safest nations in Europe and in the world.
wikitravel.org /en/Greece   (6391 words)

  
 Communist Party of Greece
At the Third Extraordinary Congress of the SEKE-K in November 1924, the party was renamed the Communist Party of Greece and adopted the principles of Marxism-Leninism.
An ELAS soldier.After the German attack against the Soviet Union and while Greece was under occupation, the Greek Communists together with other parts of the Left formed a resistance group called the National People's Liberation Army (in Greek the Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos or ELAS).
The crisis was provoked by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the Prague Spring.
www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Info/CommunistPartyOfGreece.html   (1505 words)

  
 Balkan politics in the Cold War years
Having escaped from Communist control, Greece next escapes from geography as well and ceases to be a part of the Balkans at all.
Until the defeat of the Communist insurgents in the Greek Civil War of 1947-49, the King and the army shared a common enemy: the same Leftist elements against whom they had been fighting since their wartime confrontations with EAM-ELAS, or even earlier.
The result was a Yugoslav state that had a Communist regime but was not a Soviet satellite; a socialist economy but not a command economy; and a distinctive but influential foreign policy of neutrality, in which the Cold War itself rather than either Super-Power was defined as the enemy.
www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect22.htm   (4120 words)

  
 Greece - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
It is bound by Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, Turkey and the Aegean Sea to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Ionian Sea to the west.
In Aug. 1949 communist rebels known as the National Liberation Front (EAM) were defeated in northern Greece by Marshal Alexander Papagos with the support of the Allies.
In Dec. 1974 Greece held a referendum which voted against the restoration of the monarchy and a new constitution in June 1975 declared Greece a presidential parliamentary republic.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/greece.htm   (1522 words)

  
 Czech Republic illegalises Communist Youth
The protest against the illegalization of the KSM was in the Czech Republic expressed for example by organization of former antifascist fighters, student organizations, political parties and civic associations.
Demonstrations in support of the KSM were organized in front of embassies of the Czech Republic in many countries of the world.
We ask you therefore to express your solidarity with the KSM and to protest against this unprecedented move of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic at the embassies of the Czech Republic in your countries.
www.marxist.com /czech-illegalise-communist-youth191006.htm   (756 words)

  
 Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist party of Greece
We are a Marxist political party of Greece under the name OAKKE (Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece).
These organizations became popular through the monetary aid coming from the Iranian oil-revenues, which they used to bribe the poor population by establishing “charity” networks.
This is the text of a poster issued by our organization in order to reveal the political character of Putin’s visit to Greece and call Greek people to attend our political rally held in Athens at the Hotel Titania on December 7, 2001, one day after the arrival of Putin.
www.oakke.gr /english1.htm   (5795 words)

  
 4ksm - THE STRUGGLE 4KSM GOES ON
The protest against the illegalization of the KSM was in the Czech Republic expressed for example by organization of former antifascist fighters, student organizations, political parties and civic associations.
We ask you therefore to express your solidarity with the KSM and to protest against this unprecedented move of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic at the embassies of the Czech Republic in your countries.
The initiatives against KSM are an inadmissible form of political and ideological manipulation which, in targeting the Communists attempt once again to criminalize communist ideology and any social action demanding implementation of the legitimate aspirations of the youth regarding peace, education, work, solidarity, a clean environment and progressive culture for all.
4ksm.kke.gr   (969 words)

  
 FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ANTICAPITALIST- ANTIIMPERIALIST MEETING IN ATHENS ON SPRING 2006 : Indymedia Colombia
We the undersigning this invitation, understanding the urgent need for discussion and projection of the radical movements of resistance and overthrow that are born on the ground of capitalist-imperialist aggressiveness, propose a three-day organization of anti-imperialist anticapitalist discussions, activities, and actions.
It is not about a meeting of several social organizations but a meeting of certain political forces and certain social organizations with certain political ideas.
For decades now, it has been clearly proved that whoever choose to put himself under the political and organizational frame of the opponent forces, trying to become their “left and reliable version”, not only does he influence these forces, but gradually is alerted and becomes a part of their current.
colombia.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=39925   (2274 words)

  
 Greece - Hellenic Republic - Country Profile - Ellas, Hellas, Ellada - Greece Tourism
In ancient times in Greece there have been three main civilizations, the Trojan civilization in Troy, the Cretan or Minoan civilization centered on Crete, and the Helladic or Mycenaean civilization of the Greek mainland.
Greek's victory against the Persian invaders at the beginning of the 5th century strengthens Athens role as the leader of the Greek world and marks the beginning of an epoch that was called "The Golden Age of Pericles" in which Athens became the cradle of democracy itself.
Greece has an abundance of resources that tourists with ecological and cultural interests will find attractive.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/greece.htm   (849 words)

  
 Revolutionary Marxist Organization A/synechia
One example: the anti-war activity of comrade G.P., member of the Organization and youth activist, who at that time was accomplishing his military service as sailor in the destroyer ”Themistocles” (this ship was sent by the Greek government to participate in the NATO aggression).
Inside the ship, the comrade organized tens of his colleagues, continuing the protest and spreading tracts calling the crew to refuse to participate in the aggression.
Four members of our organization were among the 13 people arrested in Athens and brought to justice under heavy accusations (”constitution of terrorist gang”, etc.).
www.icmlpo.de /us/7con/country/greece.htm   (1370 words)

  
 Greek Communists Statement
Our dedicated Communists were the first to be attacked by the revisionists, already at that time (after 1953) when the leadership and the big majority of members of the Communist Party of Greece were persecuted because of their unwillingness to accept the "cult of personality" expounded by Nikita Khrushchev and others.
In 1958, the revisionists of Greece officially liquidated the party's organizations in Greece and integrated a broad left coalition, which served as support of the "democratic" fraction of the bourgeoisie.
While we know that the Soviet communists themselves must solve the problems of orientation and unity in their movements, we cannot give the slightest credit and tolerance to "old" and contemporary revisionism, which destroyed the socialist camp and the international communist movement and restored capitalism.
www.northstarcompass.org /nsc9902/greece.htm   (1185 words)

  
 National Youth Organization (Greece, 1936-1941)
Another was dissolving the EON which had grown a very nasty reputation for swindles etc. since a lot of money had been poured into it by the previous regime.
Free elections in January 1936 produced a deadlock: 15 Communists held the balance between 143 Monarchists and 142 Liberals, Republicans and Agrarians.
He met with obstruction from the political parties, and the Communist Party became stronger, and threatened a national strike, which was an excuse to convince the king that constitutional monarchy was impossible in Greece and to get his consent to decrees dissolving the Chamber and declaring martial law (4 August 1936).
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/gr}eon.html   (590 words)

  
 ORGAN OF THE CC OF THE COMMUNIST YOUTH OF GREECE (KNE)
The Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) is a mass pioneer political organization of youth with a marxist-leninist ideology, that fights for a new society that will replace the capitalist system, for a society without exploitation of man by man, for socialism.
It is the youth of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), it is ideologically and politically guided by it, maintaining its organizational autonomy.
The crisis in the world communist movement in the end of the 1980s, followed by the overturns in the socialist countries, was refleted naturally on KKE and KNE.
www.odigitis.gr /english/page2.html   (952 words)

  
 Leftist Parties of Greece
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece - Workers Struggle
Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece - Spartacus
www.broadleft.org /gr.htm   (175 words)

  
 Maoism - China-related Topics MA-MD - China-Related Topics
Despite the role of Maoism in the Communist victory, from the advent of the PRC in 1949 until the late 1950s, the Chinese Communist regime practised the orthodox or Soviet model of Communist development.
The Communist Party now says that Maoism was necessary to break China free from its feudal past, but that the actions of Mao are seen to have led to excesses during the Cultural Revolution.
Among the most active are the Workers Communist Party (Norway), the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, the Maoist Communist Party (Turkey-Northern Kurdistan), the Communist Organization of Greece, and others.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Maoism   (2311 words)

  
 YCLUSA Online - Reclaiming Communist Poet Nazim Hikmet
The totalitarian Turkish regime revoked Nazim Hikmet's citizenship in 1951.
In fact, Hikmet was a lifelong communist and died in the Soviet Union where he had been exiled from Turkey for his political beliefs.
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) sent a solidarity greeting stating: "Let's act for new Nazim Hikmets, Yannis Ritsos, Pablo Nerudas or Luis Aragons!" and called for an end to the ban on TKP.
www.yclusa.org /article/articleview/29/1/32   (373 words)

  
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As part of their everyday life, ethnic members of our community are being made to feel as outsiders, made to feel alien and made to feel inferior at the butt of our jokes simply because of their ethnic background or religious beliefs.
At the same time, various forces of the enemy camp are also expressing their opposition to the draft EU Constitution ­ not, of course, because they wish to follow a different course, but because the concrete draft does not serve their interests.
We hope that the communist, left and progressive forces to which we are addressed will positively welcome this initiative of our Organization.
www.morrigan.net /irsm/plough28.htm   (4025 words)

  
 Government's 50 Greatest Endeavors: Contain Communism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Following World War II, President Truman committed the United States to a policy of "containment" under which the country would not strike directly at communist powers but instead would seek to halt the spread of communism to new nations.
These nations together presented a unified front to the communist governments of Eastern Europe (and also to communist or social democratic minorities in parts of Western Europe).
NATO members further restated their allegiance to the United Nations and pledged themselves to the promotion of peace and democratic governance throughout the world.
www.brook.edu /GS/CPS/50ge/endeavors/communism.htm   (765 words)

  
 International Marxist-Leninist Conference 1993
The necessity of further increasing the unity and cooperation of the Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations was stressed.
The report of the Communist Party of Albania on the situation in its country and its reconstruction was interesting: despite prohibition the party has been able to win a large number of members.
The special thanks of all the parties went to the comrades of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey, which took on the organization burden of preparing and carrying through the conference.
www.mltranslations.org /International/ml93_11.htm   (676 words)

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