Renewing Communist Ecological Left

Renewing Communist Ecological Left
Ανανεωτική Κομμουνιστική Οικολογική Αριστερά
AbbreviationΑΚΟΑ
LeaderIoannis Banias
Founded1987 (1987)
Dissolved2013 (2013)
Split fromKKE Interior
Merged intoSYRIZA
HeadquartersAkamidias 63, Athens, Greece
NewspaperEpohi
Youth wingGreek Communist Youth – Rigas Feraios
IdeologyEurocommunism
Marxism
Environmentalism
National affiliationCoalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA)
European affiliationParty of the European Left
(observer party)
ColoursRed, white
Party flag

The Renewing Communist Ecological Left (Greek: Ανανεωτική Κομμουνιστική Οικολογική Αριστερά abbreviated AKOA) was a Eurocommunist party in Greece.

Established in 1987 as KKE Interior – Renewing Left (ΚΚΕ εσωτερικού – Ανανεωτική Αριστερά or ΚΚΕσ–ΑΑ), the party resulted from the KKE Interior splitting in two. The party didn't play a major role in electoral politics during the 1990s. This would only change in 2000, when the party aligned with Synaspismos, and in 2004 became one of the founding forces of SYRIZA.

AKOA held the status of an observer in the Party of the European Left until it eventually dissolved into Syriza in 2013.