Internationalist Workers Left
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Internationalist Workers' Left (DEA)
Διεθνιστική Εργατική Αριστερά (ΔΕΑ) |
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| Leader | Elected Central Committee |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Split from | Socialist Workers' Party |
| Headquarters | Athens, Greece |
| Newspaper |
Ergatiki Aristera (Workers' Left) Diethnistiki Aristera (International Left) |
| Ideology |
Revolutionary socialism Marxism Trotskyism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Popular Unity (LAE) |
| Colours | Red |
| Website | |
| http://www.dea.org.gr/ | |
The Internationalist Workers' Left (DEA) (Greek: Διεθνιστική Εργατική Αριστερά) is a Trotskyist organization in Greece. It was founded in 2001 after splitting from the Socialist Workers' Party-International Socialist Tendency (SEK-IST). The organization is particularly active in the Greek Social Forum and the Coalition of the Radical Left. It also maintains a sisterhood relationship with the International Socialist Organization (ISO) in the United States. Through the ISO, the DEA has developed connections with both the Socialist Alternative in Australia and the Movement for Socialism in Switzerland.
The Internationalist Workers' Left was founded on 3 March 2001, after having split from the Socialist Workers' Party (SEK) - the Greek section of the International Socialist Tendency - earlier that year. At the time, SEK announced that "A small group had departed" from the party. The DEA, however, reported that the majority of Athenian members had joined the opposition. According to the DEA, the split was the result of differences in the direction of the party, including the concept of a propagandist "fortress party" as well as the role and tactics of revolutionary organizations in the Anti-globalization movement. The DEA refers to the principles of International Socialists and the Organization Socialist Revolution (OSE), the predecessor of the SEK.
During the organization's founding conference, the Socialistis Erghatis, a group from Thessaloniki that had left the OSE during the early 1990s, joined the DEA. A group around the politically-left magazine Manifesto also joined during the founding conference, only to leave with the founding of Kokkino three years later.
Resulting from the split was a lack of credibility within the Greek Left. One example was the lack of collaboration with the Youth of Synaspismós during the 2000 Anti-globalization demonstrations in Prague, causing a lack of credibility towards SEK by the members of Synaspismós.
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