Coalition of the Left and Progress
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Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology
Συνασπισμός της Αριστεράς των Κινημάτων και της Οικολογίας Synaspismós tīs Aristerás tōn Kinīmátōn kai tīs Oikologías |
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| Leader | Alexis Tsipras |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Dissolved | July 10, 2013 |
| Merged into | Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) |
| Headquarters | 1 Eleftherias Square, 105 53 Athens |
| Youth wing | SYN Youth |
| Ideology |
Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Eurocommunism Environmentalism Feminism Pacifism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Coalition of the Radical Left |
| European affiliation | Party of the European Left, European Anticapitalist Left (observer) |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | European United Left–Nordic Green Left |
| Colours | Yellow |
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The Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology (Greek: Συνασπισμός της Αριστεράς των Κινημάτων και της Οικολογίας, Synaspismós tīs Aristerás tōn Kinīmátōn kai tīs Oikologías), commonly known as Synaspismos (Greek: Συνασπισμός, Synaspismós, "Coalition") and abbreviated to SYN (ΣΥΝ), was a Greek political party of the radical New Left. It was founded in 1991 and was known as the Coalition of the Left and Progress (Greek: Συνασπισμός της Αριστεράς και της Προόδου, Synaspismós tīs Aristerás kai tīs Proódou) until 2003. In 2004 SYN was a founder member of the Party of the European Left.
SYN was the largest party of the left-wing coalition formed in 2004 called Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). It dissolved in 2013.
Synaspismos emerged initially as an electoral coalition at the late 1980s, with the pro-Soviet Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Greek Left, one of the successors of the eurocommunist KKE Interior, as its largest constituents. The Party of Democratic Socialism, a splinter from the Union of the Democratic Centre which occupied a similar position to PASOK, was the largest non-Communist member party.
The disintegration of the USSR brought the Left into disunion, and the traditional majority within KKE purged all non-hardliners from the party—almost 45% of the Central Committee members, including ex-general secretary Grigoris Farakos, and majorities in many Local Committees (named by the KKE majority as revisionists and by the press as the renewers). At this time KKE also left the coalition.
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