National Solidarity (Greek:Εθνική Αλληλεγγύη, abbreviatedE.A.) was thesocial welfare organization of theEAMresistance movement inoccupied Greece duringWorld War II.

The decision to establish a resistance organization was taken byPantelis Karagitsis,Lefteris Apostolou andAristotelis Bouras, who had just escaped from theinternal exile imposed by the pre-warMetaxas Regime. National Solidarity was thus founded on 28 May 1941, barely a month into the Occupation, in a park behind theSoteria hospital. It was the first nationwide resistance group established in Greece.^[1] Its founding members were: Kleon Papaloizos, who was also elected its secretary, Vasileios Markezinis, Dionysia Papadomichelaki, Nikos Dresios, Georgios Vasilopoulos and Spyros Antypas.

The organization participated as a founding party in the creation of theNational Liberation Front (EAM) in September 1941 and henceforth functioned as its welfare arm. For its role in feeding the people during the Occupation, it was nicknamed "the Mother of the Struggle".^[1]

• Hagen Fleischer (1995).Crown and Swastika - Greece of the Occupation and the Resistance, Vol. 2 (in Greek). Athens: Papazissis Ed.ISBN 960-02-1079-9.
• "Οι αντιστασιακές οργανώσεις φύτρωναν σαν μανιτάρια" article in theEleftherotypia newspaper, 8 April 2006(in Greek)

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