Greek Communist Youth – Rigas Feraios

The Greek Communist Youth "Rigas Feraios" (Greek: Ελληνική Κομμουνιστική Νεολαία «Ρήγας Φεραίος», abbreviated EKON Rigas Feraios, ΕΚΟΝ Ρήγας Φεραίος) was a communist youth organization in Greece.

[3] The Rigas Feraios youth organization was established in 1967, shortly after the beginning of the Regime of the Colonels.

[4][5] Rigas Feraios members were active in organizing resistance to the new regime, distributing leaflets and painting anti-junta graffiti around the country.

[5] EKON Rigas Feraios had a key role in organizing the November 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military junta.

[6] During the 1970s EKON Rigas Feraios underwent period of internal strife, which ended up in a formal split in 1978 as the minority wing formed the B Panelladiki.