Speaking about the new “development” law, he highlighted that the mockery must end and that the tale of capitalist development is the same old story that does not convince anyone. He added that growth is here, but wages —average and minimum— remain stagnant because capitalist growth is based on the intensification of the exploitation of workers.
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Dimitris Koutsoumbas: "Capitalist growth, by definition, is anti-popular in any management formula"
Speaking about the new “development” law, he highlighted that the mockery must end and that the tale of capitalist development is the same old story that does not convince anyone. He added that growth is here, but wages —average and minimum— remain stagnant because capitalist growth is based on the intensification of the exploitation of workers.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
KKE honors the victims of the Holocaust
As Delis pointed out, the millions of dead Jews during the Second Imperialist World War, stand by the 20 million dead Soviet people, alongside the liberation movements of the people of Europe who fought against the occupiers, next to the victims of Kandanos, Kalavrita, Distomo, Kommeno, next to the executed fighters of Chaidari and Kesariani.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
KKE on the dangerous tension between USA-NATO and Russia
The full statement (here in Greek) reads:
The ineffective meeting of the US and Russian Foreign Ministers in Geneva, their inability to reach and agreement even on the subject of the talks, has been accompanied in the last 24 hours by tension in aggressive rhetoric and military moves by the US, NATO, EU and capitalist Russia. The confrontation in Ukraine, which in recent years has been consistently at the center of intra-imperialist competitions, is once again rekindling.
Thursday, January 20, 2022
KKE: Statement on government's celebrations for Rafale jets
They took off from Istres in France and landed in Tanagra, where they joined the 332nd Squadron, after first flying over central Athens, escorted by two Mirage 2000-5 aircraft.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
KKE and KNE expressed their solidarity with the people of Kazakhstan
“We denounce the bloody repression, the death toll, and the arrest of thousands of demonstrators”, stressed Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, MEP of the KKE.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Farewell to Greek militant communist Maria Sideri
Maria Sideri was born in Kozani, northern Greece, in 1923. In 1943 she joined resistance youth organization EPON and took active part in all its activities against the Nazi occupation. Later she joined the KKE.
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Paul Éluard: To the heroes of the Democratic Army of Greece
French communist poet Paul Éluard (1895-1952) was part of the delegation which visited the strongholds of the communist-led Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) in Vitsi and Grammos mountains of northern Greece in June 1949.
Back then, DSE was in the midst of a fierce battle against the National Army and its imperialist allies, namely the United States.
At the end of his visit, Éluard dedicated the following message to the heroic fighters of the Democratic Army:
Friday, December 10, 2021
Greece: KKE slams Mitsotakis government's criminal handing of the pandemic
In a comment issued on Thursday, the Press Bureau of the CC of the KKE points out:
“Instead of pointing their finger, the government and the Minister of Health should answer the critical questions:
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
EAM: Notes on Greece's National Liberation Front
The 27th of September marked the 80th anniversary of the foundation of EAM, Greece's National Liberation Front, which played the leading role in the struggle against the country's Axis occupation. The major force behind the foundation, organization and activity of EAM was the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) which led the popular, anti-fascist struggle during the 1941-1944 period.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Greek-American resistance fighter Kostas Lekkas dies
Comrade Lekkas in his 100th birthday. |
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Greece: Massive anti-imperialist rallies in honor of the 1973 Polytechnic Uprising
In Athens, the demonstrators marched peacefully through central streets of the Greek capital, shouted anti-imperialist slogans ("Since the Polytechnic, the enemy remains the same: NATO, governments, capitalism") and ended outside the U.S. Embassy where they burned flags of NATO and the United States.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
The KKE pays tribute to the 48th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising
Friday, November 5, 2021
Demosthenes Ligdopoulos, Greece's first communist hero
Demosthenes Ligdopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1898. At the age of 18, in 1916, he was enrolled at the University as a mathematics student. On the same year, alongside his co-students Sp. Komiotis, Fr. Tzoulatis and Tzoumas brothers, he founded the “Socialist Youth” of Athens. Since then, the socialist ideas and the labor movement became an inseparable part of his life. The Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917 was an event that ignited the flame of Ligdopoulos' revolutionary thinking and activity.
Greece: Significant victory for COSCO dockworkers!
According to information, after negotiations of the Ministry of Shipping with Piraeus bodies and company executives, there was a framework to satisfy the demands of the employees, while COSCO accepted the application of shift and increase of the post from four to six people, in the composition health and safety committee, while abolishing the counter-shift.
Monday, November 1, 2021
Museum in honor of communist guerrillas unveiled in Greece
The speech was given on the occasion of the inauguration of a Museum-Memorial for the communist guerrilla fighters of EAM-ELAS and the Democratic Army (DSE), who fought against the Axis occupation and during the Greek Civil War respectively. The Museum was a donation by Harisis Tsoutounis who provided a space “in memory of his militant parents”, as well as to “honor the struggle of EAM-ELAS and DSE, to which the people of the area contributed significantly”.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Workers Lives Matter: Solidarity with the struggle of Cosco workers in Greece
"It's not the 'bad' moment. It is a result of the intensification of work, the lack of safety measures for our health and our integrity ", the Union of Container Workers at Piraeus Port (ENEDEP) underlined in its statement, declaring a strike in response to the tragic event.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Worker killed at Cosco-owned Piraeus Port in Greece
"It's not the 'bad' moment. It is a result of the intensification of work, the lack of safety measures for our health and our integrity ", the Union of Container Workers at Piraeus Port underlines in its statement, demanding 6-hour shifts, abolition of counter shifts, conversion of all contracts into full and Health and Safety Committees by employees.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Flashback: Remembering the 2011 murderous attack against PAME rally in Athens
Friday, October 15, 2021
KKE denounces the new Greece-US military agreement
“The so-called defence —but in reality extremely aggressive— agreement between Greece and the USA constitutes a dangerous development that further entangles our country in the US and NATO war plans in the wider region. Besides, the reference of the US Secretary of State to Greece's contribution to the war in Afghanistan foreshadows many new cases like Afghanistan, with the active participation of Greece.
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Greece-US agreement on military bases must be cancelled!
Today, Thursday 14 October, Greece's Minister of Foreign Affairs visits Washington DC in order to sign the the second Protocol of Amendment of the Greek-US Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement (MDCA) with his U.S counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The right-wing New Democracy government, continuing the “Strategic Dialogue” with the United States which was initiated by social democratic SYRIZA, promotes the renewal of the Greece-US Agreement on military bases for a period of 5 years and then its transformation indefinetely, as well as the installation of more military bases in many regions.