Socialist Workers' Party (Greece)
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The Socialist Workers Party of Greece (SEK) is an affiliate of the International Socialist Tendency (IST). It is the second largest organisation in IST behind the Socialist Workers Party of Britain. Leading members include Panos Garganos and Maria Stylou.
SEK originated among a group of exiled Greek students in London after the 1967 military coup in Greece. They were influenced by Maoist ideas and organised themselves as the Socialist Revolution Organisation (OSE). While in London they developed relations with the International Socialists led by Tony Cliff and were won to the politics of the IS. On returning to Greece their connection with the IS was abandoned.
In the early 1980s the OSE again develped close links with the IS, now the SWP, grew fairly rapidly and changed their name to the Socialist Workers Party. In 2001 a minority left to form the Internationalist Workers Left (DEA) group.