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The contribution of the jews to the history of the socialist-labour party of Greece (1918-1924)

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• Kakoulidis, Ioannis

This article examines the contribution of the Jewish socialists of Saloniki,organised in the Socialist-Labour Federation (FOS), to the history of theSocialist-Labour Party of Greece (SEKE). The FOS — a social democraticorganisation, influenced by the pre-war 2nd International — participated inthe founding Congress of the SEKE (1918), and greatly determined its politicalidentity. After the period of the “Red Years” (1919-1921), when the Jewishsocialists, like the rest of the party members, split into partisans and opponentsof the affiliation to the Communist International (C.T.), they unanimouslysupported a relative political independence of the party from the C.I. and asocial-democratic policy. However new party cadres finally succeded, withthe active assistance of the C.I. and through a hard war of factions, toenforce a bolshevik ideology and leadership and to rename the party to CommunistParty of Greece in its 3rd Extraordinary Congress (1924).

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• History and Archaeology

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