“According to the latest annual report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has reached 122.1 million. This figure that has doubled in the last decade due to an increase in armed conflicts, which have reached their highest level since World War II".
Furthermore, Koutsoumbas emphasized the following:
“The truth is that the intensity of repression against uprooted refugees is reaching new, grotesque dimensions today, and this policy is also leading to their entrapment.
From the US to the EU, plans are being drawn up for the violent deportation of millions of refugees and migrants, new concentration camps are being set up, 'refoulement' is being legalized, and racist and xenophobic hatred is being cultivated.
The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which was voted for by social democratic, neoliberal and far-right governments, is now being implemented by EU member states, leading to great suffering for uprooted refugees and expressing authoritarianism and intimidation against the peoples.
The New Democracy government is promoting the so-called return bill, which includes new reactionary measures against refugees and migrants and opens dangerous paths against our people as a whole. (...)
And, of course, there is the EU of refoulement, deportations, entrapment, and repression against refugees and immigrants.
Those who insist on whitewashing this decayed and reactionary structure, and presenting it as part of the solution, when it is, in fact, a key factor in every problem faced by the people, are themselves playing a dirty role against them. (...)
Under these conditions, the ground is being prepared for the various far-right and fascist forces to spread their poisonous xenophobic and racist ideology.
The KKE calls on the Greek people to be vigilant and prepared; to strengthen their struggle against war and our country’s involvement in it; to strengthen their solidarity with all victims of war and the hundreds of thousands of refugees and immigrants who live and work in appalling conditions in Greece; to struggle against plans for even greater repression against these people. They must silence those who seek to secure their consent for the country’s involvement in war while trying to portray refugees and immigrants as ‘criminals’ and ‘enemies’. (...)
However, the real solution and the way out for the people lies far from this EU prison, far from the warmongering adventurism and war plans of the US and NATO, and outside this corrupt, decayed capitalist system, which only gives rise to exploitation, wars, refugees, and poverty”.
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