The Socialist Workers Party of Greece (Greek

Greek language

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: Σοσιαλιστικό Εργατικό Κόμμα, SEK) is an affiliate of the International Socialist Tendency

International Socialist Tendency

The International Socialist Tendency is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations based around the ideas of Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain...

 (IST). It is the second largest organisation in IST behind the Socialist Workers Party of Britain

Socialist Workers Party (Britain)

The Socialist Workers Party is a far left party in Britain founded by Tony Cliff. The SWP's student section has groups at a number of universities...

.

SEK originated among a group of exiled Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 students in London

London

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, led by Maria Styllou and Panos Garganas, and a group of greek students during the occupations of universities against the greek dictatorship. In the beginning they organised themselves as the Socialist Revolution Organisation (OSE). While in London they developed relations with the International Socialists led by Tony Cliff

Tony Cliff

Tony Cliff , was a Trotskyist who was a founding member of the Socialist Review Group which went on to become the Socialist Workers Party...

 and were won to the politics of the IST.

In the early 1980s, the OSE developed closer links with the IST, grew fairly rapidly and in 1997 changed their name to the Socialist Workers Party. In 2001 a minority left to form the Internationalist Workers Left (DEA) organisation. SEK publishes a weekly newspaper, Workers Solidarity (Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη), and a bi-monthly magazine, Socialism from Below (Σοσιαλισμός από τα Κάτω).

The SEK is active in a number organisations, including the Greek "Stop the War Coalition", "United Against Racism and the threat of Fascism".

In the 2006 Greek local elections

Greek local elections, 2006

The 2006 Greek local elections elected representatives to Greece's 3 super-prefectures, 54 prefectures, provinces, and approximately 1,033 communities and municipalities.The elections took place on Sunday, 15 October 2006 from 7am to 7pm....

 for Athens-Piraeus Super Prefecture, the SEK supported candidates under the banner "Συμμαχία για την Υπερνομαρχία" (Symmachia gia tin Ypernomarchia = Union for the Super Prefecture) which took 1.32%.

Electoral results and tactics

Results since 1996 (year links to election page)
Year	Coalition	Type of Election	Votes	%	Seats
1999 European Parliament election, 1999 (Greece) The European Parliament election of 1999 in Greece for the election of the delegation from Greece to the European Parliament took place on June 13. The election system used in Greece was a party-list proportional representation with a 3% threshold for any party...	None	European Parliament	8,049	0.13	-
2000		Parliament	proposed vote to Synaspismos, KKE, DIKKI
2004 Greek legislative election, 2004 Legislative elections were held in Greece on March 7, 2004. At stake were 300 seats in the Greek Parliament, the Vouli . The New Democracy Party of Kostas Karamanlis won a decisive victory in the elections, ending eleven years of rule by the Panhellenic Socialist Movement .PASOK was led into the...	Anti-Capitalist Coalition	Parliament	8,313	0.10	-
2004 European Parliament election, 2004 (Greece) The European Parliament election of 2004 in Greece for the election of the delegation from Greece to the European Parliament took place on June 13. The election system used in Greece was a party-list proportional representation with a 3% threshold for any party...	Anti-Capitalist Coalition	European Parliament	11,938	0.19	0
2007	United Anti-Capitalist Left United Anti-Capitalist Left The United Anti-Capitalist Left is a coalition of radical left political parties in Greece.The United Anti-Capitalist Left was founded in 2007 by Socialist Workers' Party , the Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece-Spartacus , Left Recomposition and Left Anti-capitalist Group The...	Parliament	10,595	0.15	0
2009 Greek legislative election, 2009 Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 4 October 2009. An election was not required until September 2011.On 2 September Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis announced he would request President Karolos Papoulias to dissolve Parliament and call an election...	Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow The Front of the Greek Anticapitalist Left, in Greek Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow is a coalition of radical left political organisations in Greece. The Greek word antarsia means "mutiny"...	Parliament	24,735	0.36	0

External links

• Official SEK page in Greek
• ANTARSYA
• Greek Stop the War Coalition