The Communist Organization of Greece (, Kommounistikí Orgánosi Elládas, KOE) is a Greek political party. The KOE's ideology is revolutionary Marxism and Maoism, supporting Marxist ideology with all the historical experience of the communist movement. Origins The KOE has its origins in the Communist Party of Greece ( / Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas, KKE). As a result of the KKE's revisionist turn in 1956, Nikos Zachariadis was exiled and many hard-line Stalinists were excluded from the party. A lot of former KKE members founded the Organisation of Marxists-Leninists of Greece (OMLE) in 1964, and published the Anagennissi (Rebirth) monthly review and the weekly Laïkós Drómos (People's Road). Many people who would eventually found the Communist Organization of Greece joined the OMLE. In 1984, the future founders of the KOE established A/synechia, an effort aimed at rebuilding the communist movement, without revisionist or leftist trends, based on an analysis of the world development and the crisis that was shocking both western and eastern camps. The most prominent member of them was Yannis Hotzeas, who was one of the founders of both the OMLE and the KKE and was also a member of EAM and EPON. Ideology The KOE supports revolutionary Marxism, following the teachings of Marx and Engels as well as the experience of communist movements around the world, including Leninism and Maoism. The KOE was also against Marxist revisionism and against viewing it as merely academic or theoretical instead of practical. Paper The party paper was called Aristerá! ("Left!"). Aristerá! was first published in February 1996 as a monthly paper, eventually becoming biweekly. The last issue of the paper was published in January 2010. Since February 2010, the KOE has published the newspaper Drómos tis Aristerás (, Road of the Left) with another left party also affiliated to the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), KEDA (, Movement for the United in Action Left). The newspaper's publishing committee mostly consists of members who are unaffiliated with any Greek leftist party, and the newspaper's slogan is "from all the left, for all the left". People who collaborate with Drómos tis Aristerás include Mumia Abu-Jamal, political cartoonist Carlos Latuff, Communist Party of the Philippines leader Jose Maria Sison, and American historian, author, and social activist Max Elbaum. Elections A/synecheia participated in the municipal elections of 1994 and 1998, taking approximately 4% of the votes. The party won approximately 9,800 votes in the 1999