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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow
| native_name      = {{Lang|el|Αντικαπιταλιστική Αριστερή Συνεργασία για την Ανατροπή}}
| logo             = Logo teliko mikro.gif
| logo_size        = 250px
| colorcode        = {{party color|Antarsya}}
| foundation       = 22 March 2009
| merger           = {{Nowrap|[[Radical Left Front]]<br>[[United Anti-Capitalist Left]]}}
| ideology         = {{Nowrap|[[Anti-capitalism]]<ref name=anticap>{{cite news|url=http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_09/01/2014_535210|title=Teachers' union calls for rally over arrest of ANTARSYA protester|work=[[Kathimerini]]|date=9 January 2014|access-date=13 August 2023|archive-date=9 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109201302/http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_09/01/2014_535210|url-status=live}}</ref><br>[[Anti-fascism]]<ref name=antifa>{{cite news|date=21 March 2018|title=ΑΝΤΑΡΣΥΑ και άλλες οργανώσεις καλούν σε αντιφασιστική συγκέντρωση στη Ρηγίλλης στις 6μμ|url=https://www.documentonews.gr/article/antarsya-kai-alles-organwseis-kaloyn-se-antifasistikh-sygkentrwsh-sth-rhgillhs-stis-6mm/|language=el|trans-title=ANTARSYA and other organisations call for an anti-fascist demonstration at Righillis square at 6pm|work=Documento News|access-date=15 August 2023|archive-date=15 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815155132/https://www.documentonews.gr/article/antarsya-kai-alles-organwseis-kaloyn-se-antifasistikh-sygkentrwsh-sth-rhgillhs-stis-6mm/|url-status=live}}</ref><br>[[Socialism]]<ref name=sins>{{cite news|language=el|first=Panos|last=Papanikolaou|trans-title=The Left's seven deadly sins|date=4 November 2012|title=Τα επτά θανάσιμα αμαρτήματα της Αριστεράς|url=https://antarsya.gr/node/844|work=ΑNTARSYA website|access-date=15 August 2023|quote=We are for the socialism that has no yet existed|archive-date=15 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815155139/https://antarsya.gr/node/844|url-status=live}}</ref><br>
[[Euroscepticism]]<ref name=euro>{{cite news|language=el|trans-title=ANTARSYA on the [[European Union]] and the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|war]]|date=17 May 2023|title=Η ΑΝΤΑΡΣΥΑ για Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και πόλεμο|url=https://www.kalimera-arkadia.gr/ekloges/vouleftikes-ekloges-2023/item/154012-i-antarsya-gia-evropaiki-enosi-kai-polemo.html|work=Kalimera Arcadia|access-date=15 August 2023|archive-date=15 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815155134/https://www.kalimera-arkadia.gr/ekloges/vouleftikes-ekloges-2023/item/154012-i-antarsya-gia-evropaiki-enosi-kai-polemo.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
| student_wing     = [[United Independent Left Movement|Attack]]
| position         = {{Nowrap|[[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]<ref>{{cite news |last= Alexander |first= Anila |date= 5 April 2012 |title= Violent Protests Erupt In Greece After Pensioner Kills Himself Over Debt, Called For Greeks To 'Hang Traitors' At The Square [VIDEO + PHOTOS] |url= https://www.ibtimes.com/violent-protests-erupt-greece-after-pensioner-kills-himself-over-debt-called-greeks-hang-traitors |work= International Business Times |access-date= 13 June 2020 |quote= Petros Constantinou, an organizer for the left wing Antarsya group that participated in Wednesday's protests, told the Washington Post that the very public nature of the act -and the fact that it was done in front of Parliament- made it political.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date= 5 April 2012 |title= Greek retiree's suicide prompts new protest plans |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/greek-retiree-s-suicide-prompts-new-protest-plans-1.1228574 |work= Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date= 13 June 2020 |quote= "It was clearly a political act," said Petros Constantinou, organizer for the left wing Antarsya group that participated in Wednesday's protests. "The fact that a person reached the point of giving his life to change the situation shows ... where the policies of austerity and poverty have brought people."}}</ref> to [[Far-left politics|far-left]]<ref>{{cite news |last= Kouvelakis |first= Stathis |date= 11 June 2019 |title= Syriza's Failure Has Hurt Us All |url= https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/06/syriza-greece-elections-tsipras-varoufakis |work= [[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] |access-date= 13 June 2020 |quote= Varoufakis’s success and the relatively honorable score for Kostantopoulou only make the defeats for Popular Unity (a political front created in the summer of 2015 by Syriza’s Left Platform after it left the party) and Antarsya (the far-left coalition founded in 2009) more painful, especially for the former, not least in a contest in which the pressure to vote tactically for bigger parties is much lesser than in a national-level general election.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1= Baboulias |first1= Yiannis |last2= Seth-Smith |first2= Niki |date= 3 July 2015 |title= Letter from Athens: Greece divided over exit as anarchists and neo-Nazis wait in the wings |url= https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/letter-athens-greece-divided-over-exit-anarchists-neo-nazis-wait-wings-1508844 |work= International Business Times |location= Athens |access-date= 13 June 2020 |quote= In February, the far-left Antarsya group called on the wider left to "co-ordinate their forces and to invite workers, the people and youth and put up a large movement against the agreement".}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url= https://newleftreview.org/issues/II97/articles/stathis-kouvelakis-syriza-s-rise-and-fall |title= Syriza's Rise and Fall |last= Kouvelakis |first= Stathis |journal= [[New Left Review]] |date= February 2016 |issue= 97 |pages= 45–70 |access-date= 13 June 2020 |quote= The far-left Antarsya coalition has some potentially very interesting activists and could have contributed, but they were too sectarian.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Georgiopoulou |first= Tania |date= 10 May 2017 |title= More than 2,500 refugees live in Athens squats |url= https://www.ekathimerini.com/218260/article/ekathimerini/community/more-than-2500-refugees-live-in-athens-squats |work= [[Kathimerini]] |access-date= 13 June 2020 |quote= At the same time, the municipal council spokesman for the far-left ANTARSYA party, Petros Constantinou, said the money raised from the squat's one-year anniversary events will be used to pay the “former owner's” workers money that is owed to them. }}</ref>}}
| colours          = [[Red]]
| seats1_title     = [[Hellenic Parliament]]
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|0|300|hex=maroon}}
| seats2_title     = [[European Parliament]]
| seats2           = {{Composition bar|0|21|hex=maroon}}
| seats3_title     = [[Regions of Greece|Regional councillors]]
| seats3           = {{Composition bar|0|611|hex=maroon}}
| seats4_title     = [[Municipalities and communities of Greece|Municipal councillors]]
| seats4           = {{Composition bar|1|8481|hex=maroon}}
| website          = {{Official URL}}
| flag             = Antarsya-simaia-02-01.jpg
| state            = Greece
| country          = Greece
}}
The '''Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow''' ({{langx|el|Αντικαπιταλιστική Αριστερή Συνεργασία για την Ανατροπή|translit=Antikapitalistiki Aristeri Synergasia gia tin Anatropi}}), better known domestically by the [[acronym]] '''ΑΝΤ.ΑΡ.ΣΥ.Α.'''<ref group=n>The Greek word "ανταρσία", with the same pronunciation as ''ανταρσύα'', means "[[mutiny]]", "[[rebellion]]".</ref> ([[transliteration|transliterated]] to English: '''ANT.AR.SY.A'''), is a [[coalition]] of [[Far-left politics|radical-left]] political organisations in [[Greece]].
==Foundation==
ANTARSYA was founded on 22 March 2009 in [[Athens]] by organisations and independent [[militant]]s with origins in the now-defunct coalitions of the [[Radical Left Front]] and the [[United Anti-Capitalist Left]]. As a member of the latter, the [[Trotskyist]] and still-extant [[Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece)|Workers Revolutionary Party]] objected to the foundation of such a coalition and left the UAL.<ref>{{cite news|first=Tassos|last=Anastassiadis|url=http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1594|date=31 January 2009|title=On January 31, the Greek anti-capitalist left will launch the perspective of its convergence!|work=[[International Viewpoint]]|issue=408|access-date=13 August 2023|archive-date=25 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125204358/http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1594|url-status=live}}</ref>
The [[Organisation of Internationalist Communists of Greece]] ({{langx|el| Οργάνωση Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας |translit=Organosi Kommouniston Diethniston Elladas}}), a [[Trotskyist]] party, participated in the foundation but left  after a few weeks, on 18 May 2009,<ref name=whywe>{{cite web|publisher=[[Organisation of Internationalist Communists of Greece]]|url=http://www.okde.gr/?p=439|title=Aνακοίνωση Τυπου: Γιατί αποχωρήσαμε από την ΑΝΤΑΡΣΥΑ|date=18 May 2009|language=el|trans-title=Press Release: Why we departed from ANTARSYA|access-date=13 August 2023|archive-date=26 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526021048/http://www.okde.gr/?p=439|url-status=live}}</ref> citing objections to what it perceived as the coalition "reformist" focus on parliamentary politics and to the invocation in the foundational document of historical events on which Trotskyists have a very different view.<ref name=whywe/><ref group=n>A few years later, ANTARSYA and the [[Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece)|Workers Revolutionary Party]] formed an electoral alliance for the 2015 general elections. See: Election results.</ref>
==Members==
As of 2023, the coalition's members are the [[Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece]] (EKKE), the [[New Left Current]], (NAR),  the Youth of Communist Liberation, the [[Alternative Ecologists]],  the [[Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece–Spartacus]], the Initiative for an anticapitalist revolutionary ANTARSYA, and the [[Socialist Workers' Party (Greece)|Socialist Workers' Party]].<ref name=whonow>{{cite web|url=https://antarsya.gr/taxonomy/term/9|title=Ποιοί είμαστε|language=Greek|trans-title=Who we are|work=ANTARSYA website|access-date=13 August 2023|archive-date=13 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813163858/https://antarsya.gr/taxonomy/term/9|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Ideology and political platform==
The coalition describes itself as a "front of the anticapitalist,<ref name=anticap/> revolutionary, communist left, and of [[radical ecology]]" in Greece. Its major positions are<ref name=platform>{{cite web|url=https://antarsya.gr/node/100|title=Το πολιτικό πλαίσιο της ΑΝΤΑΡΣΥΑ|date=22 March 2009|language=Greek|trans-title=The political platform of ANTARSYA|work=ANTARSYA website|access-date=13 August 2023|archive-date=13 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813165350/https://antarsya.gr/node/100|url-status=live}}</ref>
*Exit from the [[European Union]] and the [[Eurozone]], with re-adoption of a [[national currency]],
*Default on [[Greek government-debt crisis|Greece's debt]], and
*Nationalization without compensation of all major industries in the country.
Τhe formation of ANTARSYA is understood to have been in explicit opposition to what the radical left in Greece assessed as the "social [[reformism]]" of [[Syriza]] and its leadership, which ultimately stood in support of [[austerity]] policies.<ref name=beyond>{{cite book |last1=Hardy |first1= Simon |last2=Cooper|first2=Luke  |date=2013 |title=Beyond Capitalism?: The Future of Radical Politics |publisher=[[Zero Books]]  |isbn= 978-1780998329}}</ref>
The coalition also supports a comprehensive banning of [[layoff]]s; a [[Guaranteed minimum income|minimum salary]], currently determined to the amount of 1,400 euros per month; a reduction of working time to 35 hours per week, without reduction in wages; complete disarmament of the [[Greek police]]; the granting of  full political and social rights to all [[immigrant]]s; and an [[Eco-socialism|eco-socialist]] response to the [[ecological crisis]].<ref name=platform/>
==Election results==
ANTARSYA's  participation in the electoral, parliamentary process commenced with the [[2009 European Parliament election in Greece|European Parliament elections in June 2009]], where the coalition took in 21,951 votes or 0.43% of the total. It participated in the [[2009 Greek legislative election|October 4, 2009 general elections]], listing candidates in every constituency and obtaining  24,737 votes, or 0.36% of the total.<ref>{{cite web|first=Andreas|last=Sartzekis|url=http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1727|title=Greece:The Right is routed in the legislative elections|publisher=[[International Viewpoint]]|date=October 2009|access-date=13 August 2023|archive-date=17 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417001725/https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1727|url-status=live}}</ref>
In the [[September 2015 Greek legislative election]], it formed an alliance with the [[Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece)|Workers Revolutionary Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://redmed.org/article/eek-and-antarsya-join-forces-snap-elections-greece|work=RedMed|date=4 September 2015|title=EEK and ANTARSYA join forces for snap elections in Greece|access-date=15 August 2023|archive-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023070433/http://redmed.org/article/eek-and-antarsya-join-forces-snap-elections-Greece|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Hellenic Parliament ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; line-height:16px;"
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:75px;"| Election
! colspan="5"| [[Hellenic Parliament]]
! rowspan="2" style="width:30px;"| Rank
! rowspan="2"| Leader
|-
! style="width:75px;"| Votes
! style="width:45px;"| %
! style="width:45px;"| ±[[Percentage point|pp]]
! style="width:100px;"| Seats won
! style="width:40px;"| +/−
|-
! [[2009 Greek legislative election|2009]]
| 24,687
| 0.36%
| New
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Antarsya}}}}
| New
| 8th
| rowspan=8 |''Collective leadership''
|-
! [[May 2012 Greek legislative election|May 2012]]
| 75,416
| 1.19%
| +0.83
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Antarsya}}}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 13th
|-
! [[June 2012 Greek legislative election|Jun 2012]]
| 20,416
| 0.33%
| –0.86
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Antarsya}}}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 12th
|-
! [[January 2015 Greek legislative election|Jan 2015]]{{efn|Ran in electoral alliance with the Left Front Coalition}}
| 39,497
| 0.64%
| +0.31
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Antarsya}}}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 12th
|-
! [[September 2015 Greek legislative election|Sep 2015]]{{efn|Ran in electoral alliance with [[Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece)|EEK]].}}
| 46,183
| 0.85%
| +0.21
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Antarsya}}}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 10th
|-
! [[2019 Greek legislative election|2019]]
| 23,239
| 0.41%
| –0.44
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Antarsya}}}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 12th
|-
! [[May 2023 Greek legislative election|May 2023]]
| 31,746
| 0.54%
| +0.10
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Antarsya}}}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 14th
|-
! [[June 2023 Greek legislative election|Jun 2023]]
| 15,969
| 0.31%
| –0.23
| {{Composition bar|0|300|hex={{party color|Antarsya}}}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 14th
|}
{{Notelist}}
===European Parliament===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; line-height:16px;"
|-
! colspan="9"|[[European Parliament]]
|-
! Election
! width="75" | Votes
! width="45" | %
! width="45" | ±[[Percentage point|pp]]
! width="100" | Seats won
! width="30" | +/−
! width="30" | Rank
! Leader
! EP Group
|-
! [[2009 European Parliament election in Greece|2009]]
| 21,951
| 0.43%
| ''New''
| {{Composition bar|0|22|hex=maroon}}
| ''New''
| 13th
| rowspan=5|''Collective leadership''
| rowspan=5|−
|-
! [[2014 European Parliament election in Greece|2014]]
| 41,307
| 0.72%
| +0.29
| {{Composition bar|0|21|hex=maroon}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 18th
|-
! [[2019 European Parliament election in Greece|2019]]
| 36,361
| 0.64%
| −0.08
| {{Composition bar|0|21|hex=maroon}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 20th
|-
! [[2024 European Parliament election in Greece|2024]]
| 20,603
| 0.52%
| −0.12
| {{Composition bar|0|21|hex=maroon}}
| {{steady}} 0
| 18th
|}
===Regional elections===
{|class=wikitable
|-
|colspan=6|[[Administrative regions of Greece]]
|-
!Election year
!# of<br/>overall votes
!% of<br/>overall vote
!# of<br/>overall seats won
!±
|-
![[2010 Greek local elections|2010]]
|97,499
|1.79
|{{Composition bar|7|725|hex=maroon}}
|
|-
![[2014 Greek local elections|2014]]
|128,154
|2.27
|{{Composition bar|9|703|hex=maroon}}
|{{increase}}2
|-
![[2019 Greek local elections|2019]]
|87,676
|1.62
|{{Composition bar|13|703|hex=maroon}}
|{{increase}}4
|}
==See also==
*[[Politics of Greece]]
*[[List of political parties in Greece]]
==Notes==
{{reflist|group=n}}
==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
==External links==
*[http://www.antarsya.gr/ Official website]
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