The Athens Declaration of the European Left is a joint declaration that was produced produced at the conclusion of the 1st congress of the European Left, a European political party

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. The congress was held in Athens on 29–30 October 2005. The text of the declaration is a single-page document, a copy of which can be found at Wikisource.

Signatories

The parties signing the declaration were the following, all of whom are still members of the European Left.

	Communist Party of Austria Communist Party of Austria The Communist Party of Austria is a communist party based in Austria. Established in 1918, it was banned between 1933 and 1945 under both the Austrofascist regime, and German control of Austria during World War II...
	Communist Party (Wallonia) Communist Party (Wallonia) Communist Party is a political party in Wallonia, Belgium. PC was founded in 1989 as the Communist Party of Belgium was bifurcated along linguistic lines. The president of PC is Pierre Beauvois....
	Communist Party (Flanders) Communist Party (Flanders) The Communist Party is a political party in Flanders, Belgium. It was founded in 1989 in the aftermath of the split of the Communist Party of Belgium along linguistic lines. The political secretary of the KP is Jaak Perquy.The KP publishes a newspaper, Agora...
	Party of Democratic Socialism Party of Democratic Socialism (Czech Republic) The Party of Democratic Socialism is a democratic socialist political party in the Czech Republic. It is a founding member party of the Party of the European Left....
	Estonian United Left Party Estonian United Left Party The Estonian United Left Party is a political party in Estonia.-History:In June 1988 Communist Party of Estonia , i.e. the Estonian branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, chief Karl Vaino was replaced by the reform-minded Soviet Ambassador to Nicaragua Vaino Väljas, the former...
	French Communist Party French Communist Party The French Communist Party is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism.Although its electoral support has declined in recent decades, the PCF retains a large membership, behind only that of the Union for a Popular Movement , and considerable influence in French...
	The Left The Left (Germany) The Left , also commonly referred to as the Left Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag....
	Synaspismos
	Workers' Party Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 The Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 is a political party in Hungary.It was created in mid-November 2005 from the internal opposition of the Hungarian Communist Workers' Party...
	Communist Refoundation Party Communist Refoundation Party The Communist Refoundation Party is a communist Italian political party. Its current secretary is Paolo Ferrero....
	The Left The Left (Luxembourg) The Left is a left-wing and socialist political organisation in Luxembourg. The Left was formed on 30 January 1999 by a group of like minded activists, many of them affiliated with existing political parties, notably the Communist Party of Luxembourg , the New Left, the Revolutionary Socialist...
	Left Bloc
	Socialist Alliance Party Socialist Alliance Party The Socialist Alliance Party is a political party in Romania. It developed out of the wing of the Socialist Party of Labour that objected to the merger of PSM with the Social Democratic Party in July 2003 and wanted PSM to continue to exist as a Marxist party...
	Sammarinese Communist Refoundation
	United Left United Left (Spain) The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain...
	Communist Party of Spain
	United Alternative Left of Catalonia
	Swiss Party of Labour