{{Infobox political party | name = Communist Party of Greece (Interior) | native_name = Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας Εσωτερικού | native_name_lang = el | logo = KKE Interior logo.jpg | logo_size = 100px | abbreviation = KKE Interior | colorcode = {{party color|Communist Party of Greece (Interior)}} | leader = | president = | chairman = | general_secretary = Babis Drakopoulos (first)<br />Leonidas Kyrkos (last) | foundation = {{start date|1968}} | dissolved = {{end date|1987}} | split = Communist Party of Greece | successor = Greek Left<br />KKE Interior–Renewing Left | youth_wing = Greek Communist Youth – Rigas Feraios | position = Left-wing<ref>{{cite web |date=2015-01-27 |title=The History Of Syriza: How A Small Party Came To Power |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/greece-syriza-history_n_6547798 |access-date=2025-01-31 |publisher=The Huffington Post |language=en |quote=After the fall of the Greek military junta, a military dictatorship that ruled the country for seven years, in 1974, the Communist Party participated in the first post-junta elections together with two other leftist parties: the United Democratic Left and the Communist Party of Greece Interior}}</ref> to far-left<ref>{{cite book |last1=Escalona |first1=Fabien |last2=Keith |first2=Daniel |last3=March |first3=Luke |date=2023-04-17 |title=The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Left Parties in Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Palgrave_Handbook_of_Radical_Left_Pa.html?id=wTu6EAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description |publisher=Springer Nature |page=263 |isbn=1137562641 |quote=There were also two parties of the radical left ranging from 10 to 15 per cent of the vote. Before the 1990s, these were the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Party of Greece (interior) (KKE [es]). |access-date=2025-08-15}}</ref> | ideology = Eurocommunism<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4bmaQym7GAC&q=EDA|page=199|title=Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State|first1=Neni|last1=Panourgiá|isbn=9780823229697|year=2009|publisher=Fordham Univ Press }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Escalona |first1=Fabien |last2=Keith |first2=Daniel |last3=March |first3=Luke |date=2023-04-17 |title=The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Left Parties in Europe |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Palgrave_Handbook_of_Radical_Left_Pa.html?id=wTu6EAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description |publisher=Springer Nature |page=263 |isbn=1137562641 |quote=The slight majority of the party remained on a pro-Soviet trajectory, while the minority constituted Communist Party of Greece (interior) (KKE (es)) which aligned itself with the ascending Eurocommunist current. |access-date=2025-08-15}}</ref> | headquarters = | international = | country = Greece }} The '''Communist Party of Greece – Interior''' ({{Langx|el|Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας Εσωτερικού}}), usually abbreviated as '''KKE Interior''' (ΚΚΕ Εσωτερικού or ΚΚΕ εσ.; '''KKE int.'''), was a Eurocommunist party existing between 1968 and 1987 in Greece.

The party was formed after the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) suffered a major split following the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the suppression of the Prague Spring. KKE Interior essentially broke ties with KKE's ideological supervision by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later established bonds with parties such as the Italian Communist Party (PCI), adopting a Eurocommunist perspective.<ref name="BackesMoreau2008">{{cite book |first=Nikos |last=Marantzidis |chapter=The Communist Party of Greece after the Collapse of Communism (1989-2006) - From Proletarian Internationalism to Ethno-Populism |editor1=Uwe Backes |editor2=Patrick Moreau |title=Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H23Pv4Ik3vMC&pg=PA245 |year=2008 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-525-36912-8 |page=245}}</ref>

KKE Interior was greatly active in the struggle against the Regime of the Colonels that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 through the '''Panhellenic Antidictatorial Front''' (Πανελλήνιο Αντιδικτατορικό Μέτωπο, abbrev. ΠΑΜ) and its youth wing, the Greek Communist Youth – Rigas Feraios. During the period that followed the overturn of the Regime of the Colonels, known as the Metapolitefsi, the party remained electorally active, either on its own or in broader leftist coalitions. KKE Interior was dissolved some months after its 4th Congress in 1986, splitting into two: the Communist Party of Greece (Interior)-Renewing Left and the Greek Left.<ref name="BanksDay2016">{{cite book |chapter=Greece |editor1=Arthur S. Banks |editor2=Thomas C. Muller |title=Political Handbook of the World |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6mFCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA365 |date=1998 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-14951-3 |page=365}}</ref> Through different routes, both would end up part of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).

==Notable members== * Nicos Poulantzas

==Electoral results== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- style="background-color:#C9C9C9" ! colspan="9"| Results from 1977 to 1985<br/><small>(year links to election page)</small> |- !Year !Parliament !Votes !% !Seats |- ! 1977 | Hellenic Parliament | 139,356 | 2.72 | 2 |- ! 1981 | European Parliament | 275,731 | 5.15 | 1 |- ! 1981 | Hellenic Parliament | 76,404 | 1.34 | 0 |- ! 1984 | European Parliament | 203,813 | 3.42 | 1 |- ! 1985 | Hellenic Parliament | 117,135 | 1.8 | 1 |- |}

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