The Organisation of Marxist-Leninists of Greece, known by its Greek

Greek language

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 acronym OMLE, was the original Greek Maoist movement, which split from the Communist Party of Greece

Communist Party of Greece

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 in 1964, opposing Soviet revisionism.

OMLE was a joint of exiled Greek communist in the former USSR and the other East block countries with a Greek communist group which was publishing the magazine Renaissance .

After Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

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's death, in 1976, OMLE came into a major crisis and split in two major parties: Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist) and the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece

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, the latter party following the Three Worlds Theory

Three Worlds Theory

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