Panhellenic Combative Student Faction

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The Panhellenic Combative Student Faction (P.A.S.P.) is a social-democratic student movement affiliated with PASOK, which has been active in Greek universities since 1974. During the post-dictatorship period, the founding declaration of 3 September 1974 by Andreas Papandreou led to the creation of the student movement Friends of Andreas Papandreou. In 1975, this movement evolved into the Panhellenic Combative Student Faction.

In 1982, P.A.S.P.’s proposals prompted reforms in higher education and formed the basis of Law 1268/82, which established free union activity and co-governing bodies in universities. In 1992, P.A.S.P. opposed the well-known “Souflias Law” (Law 2083/1992)^[1], which introduced two cycles of study, and took part in the broader struggle waged at the time by both the student and pupil movements. In 1995, it resisted the “Library Card” system and later played a key role in the critical debate surrounding the Arsenis Law (1999).

Subsequent milestones in its activity included its participation—together with many other popular forces—in the overturning of the Giannitsis Law on the social security system, as well as its involvement in the student movement against the educational reform of 2006.

P.A.S.P. retains possession of the bloodstained flag of the Polytechnic School Uprising in November 1973^[2] against the Regime of the Colonels.