Young Communist League of Greece

Young Communist League of Greece (Greek: Oμοσπονδία Kομμουνιστικών Nεολαιών Eλλάδας (ΟΚΝΕ); OKNE) was the youth wing of the Communist Party of Greece. OKNE was founded on November 28, 1922. The journal I Neolaia (Η Νεολαία) became the official organ of OKNE.^[1] OKNE was a section of the Communist Youth International.^[2] Nikolaos Zachariadis became the leader of OKNE in 1924.^[3] In 1925, OKNE was banned by the Greek authorities, along with the Communist Party itself and all its affiliated organizations.^[1]

Young Communist League of Greece
Founded	November 1922
Dissolved	1943
Merged into	EPON
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism
Mother party	KKE
International affiliation	Young Communist International

In 1943, OKNE was dissolved and replaced by another youth organization, the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON).^[1]

See also

• Communist Youth of Greece