ABSTRACT

This chapter highlights the multiplicity of processes and contexts in which individual and collective subjects made claims to 'the Left' and the effects such claims had on the formation of political subjectivities. In the Greek universities there are student political 'wings' such as PASP and the collectives that are constituted as 'formations'. The chapter presents the different versions of claiming the Left and different processes of becoming left. All drew in different ways from the past in order to organise and give meanings to the present. PASP of Rethymno was actually the local branch of a wide network of student collectives operating under the same name all around Greece, institutionally subsumed under PASOK. The advent of PASOK in government lead to the establishment of a law (L1862/82) which acknowledged the participation of student political organisations in the administration of Greek universities and which gradually led to processes of institutionalisation of students' collective actions.