New Left Current

Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα για την Κομμουνιστική Απελευθέρωση
*Neo Aristero Revma gia tin Kommounistiki Apeleftherosi*
New Left Current for the Communist Liberation
Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα για την Κομμουνιστική Απελευθέρωση; Neo Aristero Revma gia tin Kommounistiki Apeleftherosi ; New Left Current for the Communist Liberation
Founded	1989
Split from	Communist Party of Greece
Headquarters	76 Charilaou Trikoupi & Eresou, 10681, Athens
Newspaper	Prin
Youth wing	Youth Communist Liberation
Ideology	Communism; New Left; Eco-Socialism
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow
International affiliation	none
Colours	Red
Website
	http://www.narnet.gr
	Politics of Greece; Political parties; Elections;

The New Left Current (Greek: Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα για την Κομμουνιστική Απελευθέρωση (ΝΑΡ), Neo Aristero Revma, NAR) was formed in late 1989, mainly by former Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) members.

History

After the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) joined New Democracy party in a government coalition after the June 1989 elections, the KNE suffered substantial drop in membership loss as members disagreed with the policy of the parent party KKE had.

Elections

The New Left Current participated in the 1990 elections as "Neo Aristero Revma - Laiki Antipoliteusi" (Νέο Αριστερό Ρεύμα - Λαϊκή Αντιπολίτευση) and got 14,365 votes (0,22%). A critical figure at this early stage was Kostas Kappos, former member of the KKE and parliamentary representative.

In 1993 the NAR joined the Left Struggle (MERA) political coalition along with the Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece (EKKE), Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist), Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK). The coalition received 8,160 votes in 1993 and 10,443 votes in the 1996 general elections.

In 1999, NAR, EKKE, EEK and the Independent Communist Organization of Serres (AKOS) formed the Radical Left Front (MERA). Since 2009, NAR, along with the other parties of MERA, with the exception of EEK, is part of the broader coalition Front of the Greek Anticapitalist Left (ANTARSYA).

Election results

Results since 1990 (year links to election page)
Year	Type of Election	Electoral coalition	Votes	%	Representatives
1990	Parliament	Popular Opposition	14,365	0.21%	0/300
1993	Parliament	Left Struggle	8,160	0.11%	0/300
1994	European Parliament	Left Movement Against EU	14,006	0.21%	0/25
1996	Parliament	Left Struggle	10,416	0.15%	0/300
1999	European Parliament	MERA¹	10,884	0.17%	0/25
2000	Parliament	MERA	8,183	0.11%	0/300
2004	Parliament	MERA	11,285	0.15%	0/300
2004	European Parliament	MERA	13,387	0.22%	0/24
2007	Parliament	MERA	11,859	0.17%	0/300
2009	European Parliament	ANTARSYA²	21,951	0.43%	0/22
2009	Parliament	ANTARSYA	24,737	0.36%	0/300
2010	Regional	ANTARSYA	97,496	1.80%	7/725
2012	Parliament	ANTARSYA	75,439	1.19%	0/300
2012	Parliament	ANTARSYA	20.389	0,33%	0/300
2014	Regional	ANTARSYA	128,154	2.27%	9/703
2014	European Parliament	ANTARSYA	41,299	0.72%	0/21
2015	Parliament	ANTARSYA - MARS³	39,497	0.64%	0/300
2015	Parliament	ANTARSYA - EEK⁴	46,094	0.85%	0/300

¹ Radical Left Front

² Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow

³ Left Front Coalition

⁴ Workers Revolutionary Party


1990, Parliament			14,365
1993, Parliament			8,160
1994, European Parliament			14,006
1996, Parliament			10,416
1999, European Parliament			10,884
2000, Parliament			8,133
2004, Parliament			11,285
2004, European Parliament			13,387
2007, Parliament			11,895
2009, European Parliament			21,951
2009, Parliament			24,737
2010, Regional			97,496
2012, Parliament			75,439
2012, Parliament			20,389
2014, Regional			128,154
2014, European Parliament			41,299
2015, Parliament			39,497
2015, Parliament			46,094

Youth organisation

In the early years, the youth wing of the NAR was still named the KNE, as even the general secretary of KNE, Giorgos Grapsas, and most of its politburo had joined NAR, but in the mid-1990s, it changed its name to the Youth of Communist Liberation (Νεολαία Κομμουνιστική Απελευθέρωση, Neolaia Kommunistiki Apeleftherosi). Members of the Youth Communist Liberation participate in the United Independent Left Movement, a sum of left-wing student organisations, active in 3rd-level educational institutions (Universities - Technical Academical institutions) in Greece.[1]

gollark: It probably still comes out as higher bitrate since you still have more changing stuff I guess.

gollark: Apparently encoders actually usually reduce quality targets in high movement bits, since you can't notice issues as easily.

gollark: Isn't that more of an encoder parameter than a fundamental thing of that?

gollark: They have perfectly good (maybe) hardware RNGs nowadays.

gollark: Nvidia GPU spec sheets often quote a CUDA core count while AMD mentions "CUs" and such, but either way it bakes down to mostly just a bunch of small parallel ALUs, schedulers and such, and fast memory.

References

Ανακοίνωση νΚΑ για τις φοιτητικές εκλογές (in Greek). Youth Communist Liberation. 2011-05-23. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2012-03-03.

External links

PRIN - Weekly newspaper affiliated with NAR
Official page of Youth of Communist Liberation
Official page of New Left Current

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[1] Ανακοίνωση νΚΑ για τις φοιτητικές εκλογές (in Greek). Youth Communist Liberation. 2011-05-23. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2012-03-03.