Talk:Progressive Party of Working People

message: I made the following edit, which I trust is NPOV.
"During the late fifties, AKEL was opposed to the violent tactics followed by the anti-British resistance movement of EOKA. AKEL divulged to the authorities that George Grivas was leader of EOKA, and EOKA accused AKEL as collaborators of the British. The animosity between the two sides became violent. Several AKEL and EOKA members were assasinated at the time, including AKEL-supporter Savas Menikou who was stoned to death."
Rastapopoulos 11:37, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The british probably knew anyway that Grivas was the leader, but it was the Communist Party of Greece through its radio station beaming from Eastern Europe that named him as the leader of EOKA, not AKEL.
Also your edit implies that AKEL was killing EOKA members, which is rather far away from the truth.
Mavros 13:25, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  See my edit at [[EOKA]] 

message: is a communist party in Cyprus, taking into account current international political and economic developments. - somebody with more knowledge should reword that Sherurcij (talk) (bounties) 20:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Reword

message: AKEL supported Papadopoulos in 2003 despite the fact that he was an active EOKA member who publicly approved AKEL supporters killings. His flyers, signed by his hand under the nickname "Defkalion" can be found at http://www.makarios.ws/
--Morrisphillip 00:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  killings 

message: I hear (from Cypriots) they own quite a lot of capital and they are pro-free market. Are they only in name? --Leladax (talk) 22:25, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is debatable. Golden Dawn (political party) does not call itself neo-Nazi, but it is labelled so on Wikipedia based on support from sources from researchers, professors and political analysts. The above reviewer is perfectly right, AKEL is not a communist party, the point however is that to change the label on Wikipedia you need the appropriate sources to support it. No sources, no change, we are left with the old label for now. --Tco03displays (talk) 20:07, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it really communist? 

message: In the light of recent editing, the following should be stated.
*Using the label 'social democratic' is akin to political slander. Moreover, it is clearly misleading.
* clearly reaffirms that AKEL is a communist party.
*p. 259, "AKEL, as the the Cypriot Communist Party is widely known"
*p. 265, "The outcome of the February 2003 Cyprus presidential election confirmed the influence of the communists."
*pp. 268-269, "Like every communist party, AKEL also expects every single cadre to show active political commitment. [...] AKEL is reputed to be a tightly controlled apparatus, structured around the principle of democratic centralism" (Comment: Herein lies one of the key differences between communists and social democrats, stemming back from the Bolshevik-Menshevik split. Communist parties are cadre parties built on democratic centralism. Social democratic parties are mass parties often with collective membership structures)
*p. 273 "Marxism and Leninism are still the theoretical foundation of party identity" (Comment: The AKEL website says Marxism-Leninism, not "Marxism and Leninism")
*Now, on p. 274 the authors make an argument on comparisons with social democracy. To some extent they redefine some concepts here, but at same time it is important to pay attention to detail. When saying that AKEL "shaped the profile of a modern social democratic party", the comment refers to the preceding passage on its moderate approach to the national question and involvement in pragmatic politics. The sentence used to justify the soc dem label says "it can be concluded that that today AKEL corresponds more to a social-democratic party" (my emphasis), it says that the role of the party corresponds to the role played by Social Democratic parties in other countries, but this is also due to the absence of a strong Cypriot social democracy. Anyhow, this relates to the political role, not the ideology as such. Later on the same page it is reaffirmed that AKEL is indeed a communist party, "...the AKEL follows the classic perception of the other existing communist parties towards the Post Cold War order."
*I think the notion that only 1928 Third Period parties can be classified as communist would be highly unhelpful to Wikipedia. European communist parties have adopted pragmatic policies since the 1935 Popular Front line, and in the post-war era they have worked within the parliamentary framework. Compared to other contemporary parties, AKEL is more ideologically rigid than say the CPs of Spain and France. --Soman (talk) 17:09, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ideology 

message: Vif12vif seems absolutely deadset on including a link that calls AKEL "leftist" to prove that it is "left-wing." The two words do not and never have meant the same thing, no matter which context they are used in. There's three other citations calling it left-wing that will soothe Vif's insecurities, but this specific citation is simply incorrect and I am removing it.50.227.112.186 (talk) 21:39, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political position