Synaspismos Youth

Synaspismos Youth Νεολαία Συνασπισμού
Leader	Ilias Chronopoulos
Dissolved	December 2013 (2014-01)
Merged into	SYRIZA Youth
Ideology	Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Eurocommunism
European affiliation	European Network of Democratic Young Left (ENDYL)

Synaspismos Youth (Greek: Νεολαία Συνασπισμού; "Coalition's Youth"), was the youth organisation of Synaspismos. Until 1999, it was named Union of Left Youth.

The Synaspismos Youth participated in the Left Unity in the Greek Universities with smaller left-wing student organisations. It published a magazine called "Enedra" every two months.

A member of the European Network of Democratic Young Left (Endyl), Synaspismos Youth has been described as "one of its pillars."^[1] Under the leadership of today's Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras, the organisation took an active part in the process of creating the Greek Social Forum.^[2] It also participated in alter-globalist struggles^[3] and together with its European sister organisations co-organised events in the context of the 4th European Social Forum, 2006 in Athens.^[4]

References

1. Moussaoui, Rosa (27 January 2015). "La génération Syriza au pouvoir". L'Humanité (in French). Retrieved 4 February 2015.
2. "Who is the man who may be the next Greek PM?". Proto Thema. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
3. Vakaloulis, Michel (2012). "The Left, the Youth and the Political Project. Interview with Interview with Rena Dourou". transform!. No. 10. p. 111. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
4. M. Andretta; H. Reiter (2 June 2009). "Parties, unions and movements". In Donatella della Porta (ed.). Another Europe: Conceptions and Practices of Democracy in the European Social Forums. Routledge. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-415-47464-1. Retrieved 4 February 2015.

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived July 4, 2014) (in Greek)