The historical roots of OKDE can be traced to the
Left Opposition of the
Communist Party of Greece around
Pandelis Pouliopoulos and Pastias Giatsopoulos, which was expelled at the Third Regular Congress of the party in 1928. Originally, the expelled did not consider themselves to be a different movement to the Communist Party, nor did they seek to found a new political group; rather, their main goal was to return to the Party in order to, in their view, restore its original
Leninist principles. This changed, however, in 1934, when all the communist parties in
Nazi Germany were outlawed with the rise of
National Socialism. Pouliopoulos and Giatsopoulos considered that the Communist Party of Greece had now abandoned its original position that the
Stalinist communist parties and the
Third International could apply revolutionary
Marxism in Greece. Thus, in 1934, the
Spartacus League (Σπάρτακος; led by Pouliopoulos) and the (
Trotskyist group)
Leninist Opposition to the KKE – LAKKE (Λενινιστική Αντιπολίτευση του ΚΚΕ, ΛΑΚΚΕ; previously called
KEO and led by
Michel Pablo until 1933) were united and formed OKDE. In 1937, on the initiative of Pouliopoulos,
Neos Dromos merged with OKDE to briefly form the
United OKDE (Ενιαία ΟΚΔΕ, ΕΟΚΔΕ;
EOKDE, 1937–1942). In September 1938, Pablo represented Pouliopoulos's EOKDE at the founding conference of the
Fourth International. In May 1943, the majority of the EOKDE founded the
Party of Internationalist Communists of Greece (Κόμμα Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας, ΚΚΔΕ;
KKDE), which in 1945 participated in the founding of the '''Workers' Internationalist Party of Greece
(Εργατικό Διεθνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας, ΕΔΚΕ; EDKE'''). In July 1946, EDKE and
Agis Stinas'
DEKE were merged into
KDKE. KDKE was dissolved in 1967 (when the
Regime of the Colonels came to power) and was refounded in 1974 as OKDE. In 1985, some members of OKDE left the party and formed the
Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece–Spartacus. OKDE supported the
Radical Left Front at the
2007 legislative elections. In the
2010 local elections, the party elected one municipal councillor at the
Ampelokipoi-Menemeni municipality. In 2012, the party participated at the
May legislative elections, where it received the 0.03% of the vote. == Election results ==