National and Social Liberation

The organization's aims were to fight the Germans as long as the occupation lasted and, after Liberation, work for a republican regime and social change.

EKKA's armed wing was the 5/42 Evzone Regiment, founded in early 1943 and named after Psarros' old army unit.

ELAS forces attacked the 5/42 Evzones Regiment on 14 May and 23 June 1943 forcing its dissolution, but bowing to pressure from the British Military Mission, they agreed to allow it to reform within the unifying framework of the so-called "National Bands Agreement" of July 1943.

The event caused a major shock in the Greek political scene since Psarros was a well-known republican, patriot and anti-royalist.

The event is considered a precursor of the Greek Civil War that broke out a year later (see Dekemvriana).