The execution- murder- of Beloyannis was a crime of the then bourgeois Greek government of Nikolaos Plastiras and the U.S. imperialists.
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
NIKOS BELOYANNIS, The Man with the Carnation: Always alive in the hearts and consciousness of the people
Friday, March 17, 2017
Karl Marx: The Man Who Changed The World Forever
By Nikos Mottas*.
"On
the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the
greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for
scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his
armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever”.
With these words, Friedrich Engels had opened his speech during Karl
Marx's funeral at London's Highgate cemetery. This year marks the
134th
anniversary since the death of the greatest thinker in the history of
mankind; the man who tried not only to interpret the world but to
change it. And, indeed, Marx's theoretical work became the basis for
social change, highlighting the scientific perception of the class
struggle as the driving force of History.
"The
genius of Marx”,
Lenin wrote, "lies
in his having been the first to deduce from the lesson world history
teaches and to apply that lesson consistently. The deduction he made
is the doctribe of the class struggle”
(V.I.Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism).
Marx's thought and work consists a milestone in the history of
philosophy, political economy and social sciences. As Lenin wrote,
the Marxist theory “is
the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the
nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English
political economy and French socialism”.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
SYRIZA: Capitalism's social democratic servant
By Nikos Mottas*.
The
25th of January marked the two years since SYRIZA's
electoral victory. During these two years the political deception of
SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras was fully exposed. The promises of the
“left-wing” SYRIZA- about the supposed “tearing” of the
memorandums, the end of austerity, the abolition of unjust taxation,
the incrase of wages and pensions- were proved a colossal piece of
political knavery. During the last two years, the government of
Alexis Tsipras was proved an excellent implementer of capital's
anti-people policy, thus walking on the steps of its predecessors,
the governments of New Democracy and PASOK.
Since
January 2015 and its electoral triumph, the “left-wing” SYRIZA,
in governmental alliance with the right-wing, nationalist party
“ANEL”, managed to sign and vote a 3rd memorandum of
austerity with even harder measures than the previous two; to pass
hundreds of harsh anti-people, anti-workers laws; to demolish pension
rights; to impose additional heavy taxation to the popular strata; to
proceed to further privatizations of state property; to attack social
security rights through supposed “reforms” which demolishes
whatever has remained from the workers'-people's rights.
Friday, January 20, 2017
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: His revolutionary legacy remains alive and timely
By Nikos Mottas.
It was in the dawn of January 21, 1924, 93 years ago, when the heart of the greatest revolutionary in history, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, stopped beating. Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution and architect of the first socialist state in the world, was 54 years old.
The name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is
identified with two dialectically connected issues. On the one hand,
there is his revolutionary activity and practice as the leader of the
20th century's most significant event- the 1917 Great
October Socialist Revolution. On the other hand, there is his
theoretical work which is the development of the revolutionary theory
of Marx and Engels in the era of Imperialism. That extraordinary
combination of revolutionary theory and practice makes Lenin a unique
personality in history who, 93 years after his death, remains “alive”
in the collective memory and hearts of the working class people
across the world.
Friday, December 23, 2016
USSR 1991 – History did not end with the counterrevolution; Socialism is timely and necessary
It
was December 26, 1991 – 25 years ago- when the red flag with the
sickle and hammer was lowered from the Moscow Kremlin. It was then,
during the cold days of December, when the first socialist state of
the world, the homeland of the world's proletariat, bent under the
weight of the counterrevolution. Four days before, on December 22nd,
the leaderships of three of the largest Soviet republics had decided
the dissolution of the USSR, while the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union had been outlawed on summer of the same year.
The
events of December 1991 sealed the victory of the counterrevolution,
as the result of a process which officially began in 1985 with the
Perestroika and reached its peak in 1989 with the overthrow of
Socialism. Of course, the roots of the counterrevolution can be
traced back in a series of revisionist-opportunist decisions taken at
the CPSU's 20th Congress back in 1956.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIALIST CUBA: Refuting the bourgeois slanders against Fidel Castro
EDITORIAL
The death of Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz on November 25 sparked a barrage of vulgar statements, declarations and comments from various bourgeois sources. Liberals, neoliberals, conservatives, neo-Nazis and other apologists of Capitalism's barbarity tried to vilify Fidel as a "dictator" and Socialist Cuba as a "repressive dictatorship". Of course, the millions of Cuban people, of every age, who took the streets in order to say farewell to Comandante Fidel gave their powerful response to all these anticommunist slanderers. Was Fidel Castro a "dictator", as the bourgeois propaganda argues, or was he a champion of social justice and a hero to millions of people across the world?
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Thank You Compañero Fidel Castro!
THANK YOU COMPAÑERO FIDEL CASTRO!
By Nikos Mottas*.
"Rights are to be taken,
not requested; seized,
not begged for"
- Jose Marti.
After
25th November 2016 humanity is poorer. The international
working class, the people who fiught for a better world, those who
believe in a society without exploitation of man by man, are poorer.
Along with the proud people of Cuba, the international communist
movement mourns the biological death of one of the greatest, the most
emblematic revolutionaries of contemporary History. The heart of the
leader of the Cuban Revolution, Comandante Fidel Castro stopped
beating, marking the biological end of a life of 90 years full of
struggles and sacrifices for the ideals of Socialism-Communism, for a
Cuba where the people will be the masters of their destiny.
The death of Fidel, as well as the biological deaths of other extraordinary revolutionaries and communists like Lenin, Stalin, Che, Ho Chi Minch, consists a motive for the evaluation of their revolutionary work and legacy. A work and a legacy which are key factors in the formation of the class conciousness of the working class.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
The Berlin Wall and the bourgeois lies
By Nikos Mottas*
The
9th of November consists a milestone for those who have
turned anticommunist propaganda into profession. It is the day when,
in 1989, the destruction of the so-called “Berlin Wall” began.
Since then, every year, we observe smaller or larger fiestas about the "fall of the Wall" and the restoration of Capitalism in the German
Democratic Republic (GDR). In these fiestas, the winners of the Cold
War employ their anticommunist imagination in order to celebrate the
“big event”- for example, in 2014, during the 25th
anniversary, among the official guests in Berlin was the miserable
puppet of international imperialism called Mikhail Gorbachev.
For
more than 26 years, within the framework of slanders against the
actual existed Socialism, the bourgeois historiography, the bourgeois
media as well as various opportunists engage in a war of distortions
regarding the history of the Berlin Wall. They deliberately vilify
the German Democratic Republic and the achievements of the socialist
construction while they attempt to manipulate the European and
international public opinion with the known, anti-scientific and
anti-historical equation between Communism and Fascism.
Monday, September 5, 2016
Why Socialism is superior to Capitalism- The achievements of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union
Why Socialism is superior than Capitalism: The achievements of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union
By Nikos Mottas.
During
the last 25 years, after the victory of the counterrevolutionary
forces in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the public political
discussion has been dominated by the concept of the “end of
history, end of ideologies”. This is certainly a very convenient
concept for the dominant class, the bourgeoisie, in her effort to
convince the world that: 1) Socialism has irreversibly failed, 2)
Capitalism is the final winner in the succession of History's
socio-economic transformations, 3) Every argument for a
non-capitalist society, where the means of productions will be
socialized in a centrally-planned economy, is “unrealistic” and a
“utopian fantasy”.
Anticommunism,
of course, consists a core part of the above bourgeois principle. For
more than two decades, the bourgeois forces and their mechanisms
(historiography, media, etc.) in all over the world have unleashed an
anticommunist crusade, mainly through demonizing and slundering the
Soviet Union and the socialist construction of the 20th
century in general.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Solzhenitsyn — The rotten legacy of a Fascist
It
was August 3, 2008 when the “Patriarch” of anti-communism,
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, died. The writings of Solzhenitsyn became a
major source of anti-Soviet hysteria and blatant slanders
against the first socialist state. Even today, Solzhenitsyn's major
work “The Gulag Archipelago” is, more or less, regarded as the
anti-communist “bible” of the world's apologists of capitalism
and anti-soviet propaganda.
The supposed “honest” testimonies of
Solzhenitsyn- which he was never able to prove- were used in the
building of an anti-stalinist, anti-communist obsession which the
West had so much need to base upon, especially after the end of WW2.
However,
who was really this nobel prize-winning Russian and how much
credibility do his anti-soviet fairy tales contain?
Thursday, July 21, 2016
The Truth about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Imperialist Propaganda
By Nikos Mottas.
"If
we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia
is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as
many as possible...”
- Harry
Truman, 1941.
Since
the end of the Second World War, the bourgeois historiography has
tried to distort various incidents in order to vilify Socialism and
the USSR. One of these incidents- which has been a "banner" of
imperialism's apologists and other anticommunists- is the so-called
“Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact”* which was signed in 1939. In it's
unscientific, unhistorical effort to equate Communism with Nazism,
the bourgeois propaganda presents the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact as a
medium of expansive policy by the USSR and Hitler's Germany. The
distortion of historical events, the amalgamation of lies and the
half-truths by the Imperialists and their collaborators aim in
defaming the huge role of the Soviet Union in the anti-fascist
struggle of WW2.
However,
the reality is different than the one presented by the bourgeois
historiography. Here, we will examine the circumstances and the
events which led to the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, in an
effort to debunk the anti-communist propaganda on this matter.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Erdogan vs Coup: The two sides of the same coin
COMMENTARY.
By Nikos Mottas.
It
is certainly too early in order to draw solid conclusions about the
attempted military coup in Turkey. The developments and the
information we receive are rapid and continuous. Numerous questions
arise: Who was really behind the attempted Coup? What were the real
motives of this action? How will Tayip Erdogan and his government
respond in the next few days? However, what is sure is the framework
within which the developments in Turkey are taking place: It is a
framework of inter-bourgeois contradictions which reflect a sharp
rivalry between different parts of the Turkish Capital.
The
attempted military coup- as well as the almost immediate response
from Erdogan and AKP supporters- reflect a situation of internal war
within Turkey's bourgeoisie. Taking into account the significant
geostrategic role of Turkey in the region, we can understand that
this intra-bourgeois, intra-capitalist war consists part of broader
inter-imperialist contradictions in the Middle East.
The
situation in Turkey cannot be explained on the basis of the-
nevertheless existing- political rivalry between pro-Islamists
(Erdogan) and Kemalist forces; It is a deeper and much more
complicated situation. The internal political turmoil in Turkey is
interdependent with the imperialist activity in the region- with the
ongoing war in Syria and the relations of the Turkish government with
foreign powers such as the US, NATO, Russia, the EU, ISIS etc.
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
One year since the Greek bailout referendum: KKE's position has been fully vindicated
One year since the Greek Bailout Referendum: KKE's position has been fully vindicated.
By Nikos Mottas.
5/7/2016.
It's been a year
since the bailout referendum was held in Greece. The whole story
surrounding the referendum, as well as what followed the referendum
result, consists a major episode in a series of deceptions created by
the Tsipras' coalition government. The referendum's question was
whether the Greek people agreed or not with the bailout conditions
proposed by the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund
and the European Central Bank [1].
The outcome was a triumph of the “No” vote with 61.31%, while a
38.69% of the voters choosed the “Yes” choice.
However, the
referendum itself was proved a political fraud. The SYRIZA-ANEL
coalition government- and Prime Minister Tsipras personally- openly
advocated in favor of the “No” vote. Thousands of “No”
supporters gathered in mass demonstrations, while the country lived a
short but intense polarised period, trapped between the “No vs Yes”
dilemma. A fake and illusive dilemma, which had nothing to do with
the real interests of the working masses who, once again, found
themselves entrapped in bourgeois political antagonism.
Monday, June 27, 2016
Nikos Mottas- Venezuela and the Opportunist Theory of “21st Century Socialism”
Venezuela and the Opportunist Theory of “21st Century Socialism”.
By Nikos Mottas.
Translated version of an article published on atexnos.gr.
Rapid developments have taken place in Venezuela during the last months.
From last December's electoral victory of the right-reactionary
opposition until the recent assassination of a retired Army
General, we have seen a series of events which lead to the
destabilization of Nicolas Maduro government. Eighteen years since the
rise of Hugo Chavez in power, in 1998, the “Bolivarian Revolution”
trembles dangerously, while the conservative opposition is on the
counter-attack and a number of external agents (US government, OAS
etc.) are variously trying to intervene in the country's internal
affairs.
The
crisis in Venezuela has two sides: On the one hand, the government and
its people are facing a multidimensional attack from imperialist
centers which aim in exacerbating the situation to such extend so
that a possible (external) military intervention would be justified.
The attack on Venezuela must be examined as part of the broader framework
of inter-imperialist, inter-bourgeoisie contradictions and
antagonisms which- fostered by the US policy- are taking place in
Latin America. That comes out also as a result of the developments in
Brazil (the 7th largest economy worldwide) where the
inter-bourgeoisie confrontation and the scandal-mongering political
orgy led to the expulsion of President Roussef.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
The Varoufakis Illusion- An "erratic Marxist" at the service of Capitalism
By Nikos Mottas.
Last April, the former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis was among those who addressed one of "Nuit Debout" movement's rallies in Paris. Expressing his solidarity, Varoufakis compared the french "Nuit Debout" with the 2011 Greek movement of indignant citizens: "It was an earthquake. We changed the policy in Greece, but also in Europe" he said. Of course, that was another example of bombastic nonsense by the former Minister.
Varoufakis and his former political alter ego, Alexis Tsipras, didn't change anything, neither in Greece nor in Europe. The coalition government of SYRIZA-ANEL, which came to power on January 2015, continued on the steps of the previous governments; they served the aim of Greek capitalism's recovery and they continue doing so. Mr.Varoufakis- who since then has been an international 'celebrity' by presenting himself as a 'guru' of economics- never disagreed on the fundamental policy of the SYRIZA government. As we wrote in a previous article ("The simple truth about Varoufakis and his DiEM25 party"), Mr.Varoufakis had agreed on the 67% of the austerity reforms, according to his own words in a Berlin press conference, on February 2015.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
What the Capitalist Economic Crisis in Greece has taught us
By Nikos Mottas.
It was six years
ago, on May 2010, when the then Prime Minister George Papandreou, in
a televised message from the picturesque island of Kastelorizo, was
announcing Greece's entry to the support mechanism of the IMF and the
EU – the 'memorandum phase'. The economic crisis in Greece had
manifested itself a year earlier, in 2009, when it entered in a phase
of rapid recession, following the outbreak of global financial crisis
in 2007-2008. Today, after four bourgeois governments (Papandreou,
Papademos, Samaras, Tsipras) and three memorandums of harsh austerity
packages, we can draw some significant conslusions. What did the
Capitalist Economic Crisis in Greece teach us?
1. The
Source of the Crisis.
Contrary
to various bourgeois interpretations and theories of the economic
crisis (over-consumption, casino-capitalism, etc.), there is one
clear, scientifically proven, reality: Capitalism itself contains in
it's DNA the inevitability of crises. Capitalist production, with
it's contradictory character and anarchy, contains the seed of such
crises. In Capitalist economy lies the motive to
push capitalist reproduction to extremes levels,
to accumulate immense profits, thus
giving a
monetary speculative form to the appropriation of surplus value from
the working class labour.
The devaluation of capital (either commercial or financial) and the
devaluation of labour power (as a commodity), has occurred repeatedly
in the past and will certainly occur in the future for as long as the
exploitative system called 'Capitalism' exists.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
'Captain-Yiotis' remembered: Charilaos Florakis, 1914-2005
Nikos
Mottas writes about the legendary Greek Communist leader,
partisan-fighter in WW2 and Greece's Civil War, long-time
(1972-1991) General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece,
CHARILAOS FLORAKIS.
By Nikos Mottas.
It
was the 22nd of May 2005 when the tireless communist, the
militant guerrilla captain, the popular leader, comrade Charilaos
Florakis passed away. At 91 years of age, he was completing a life
full of struggles; a life given to the ideals of a better world, for
the perspective of Socialism and Communism. His life was given to
KKE, to the Party he loved and gave everything.
The
life and activity of Charilaos Florakis has been core part of KKE's
history, of the most glorious- but also difficult- peoples struggles
in Greece during WW2 occupation, during the Civil War as well as the
country's modern history. Comrade Florakis, with his firm faith in
the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, was never absent from Greek working
class struggles.
Charilaos
Florakis' political activity began in the pre-war decade of 1930s, as
a member of the Communist Party's youth wing (OKNE) and later as a
student and vigorous worker at the so-called “TTT” (Posts,
Telegraphs, Telephone Offices). At an early age, as a teenager, he
understood the signs of the ongoing class-struggle in the Greek
countryside of '30s:
Monday, May 9, 2016
9th of May: Honoring People's Antifascist Victory!
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Спасибо! (Thank you) - Veterans of the Red Army. |
By Nikos Mottas.
9th
May 1945: The day when the Red flag with sickle and hammer was raised
thriumphantly over the Reichstag in Berlin. The day when Nazi Germany
surrended unconditionally to the Red Army, marking a great victory of
humanity over fascism. The 9th
May is, without doubt, one of the brightest dates in human history, a
glorious day for the first Socialist state, for the Soviet Union and
it's people.
On this day, we pay tribute to all those heroes, men and women, who gave their own lives on the battlefields. We remember all those heroes who fought against the monster of Fascism. From the bottom of our heart we express our gratitude to the fighters of the Soviet Army, to the communist and anti-fascist partisans in Europe who led the liberation struggles against the Nazis. We remember and honor all those men and women, of every age, who maintained a heroic stance against the firing squads of the fascists.
On this day, we pay tribute to all those heroes, men and women, who gave their own lives on the battlefields. We remember all those heroes who fought against the monster of Fascism. From the bottom of our heart we express our gratitude to the fighters of the Soviet Army, to the communist and anti-fascist partisans in Europe who led the liberation struggles against the Nazis. We remember and honor all those men and women, of every age, who maintained a heroic stance against the firing squads of the fascists.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Fidel Castro: Absolved by History!
Two days ago, compañero Fidel Castro made a rare appearance at the closing of the VII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. A great revolutionary, an incredible human being, Fidel, deserves the full respect of every communist, of everyone who believes in the ideals of Marxism-Leninism.
Fidel Castro: Absolved by History!*
By Nikos Mottas.
"Socialism is and will continue being the hope, the only hope, the only way for the People, the oppressed ones, the exploited ones, the looted ones. Socialism is the only choice!" - Fidel Castro Ruz.
It was 26th of July 1953 when a group of around 160 rebels, under the leadership of 26 years-old lawyer Fidel Castro, tried an armed attack on the Moncada barracks, at Santiago de Cuba. The aim was to give a first message of resistance against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The attack was not successful. Sixty-one rebels were killed while the rest -- including Castro -- were captured and imprisoned by the regime's authorities. However, the 26th of July 1953 remained in Cuban history as the day when the trigger of the following revolution was pulled. The revolutionary 'Movement of the 26thof July' (Movimiento 26 de Julio) took it's name from that day and a few years later led the army of Fidel, Che, Raul and Camilo to the thriumph against the corrupted, pro-imperialist regime of Batista.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Che Guevara: “I came to communism because of Stalin”
By Nikos Mottas.
Originally published in atexnos.gr.
Translated from Greek.
Ernesto
Che Guevara is undoubtedly a historical figure of the 20th
century's communist movement who attracts the interest of people from
a vast range of political ideologies. The years followed his cowardly
assassination in Bolivia, Che became a revolutionary symbol for a
variety of marxist-oriented, leftist and progressive parties and
organisations- from Trotskyists to militant leninists and from Social
Democrats to anarcho-libertarians. A significant number of those who
admire the argentine revolutionary identify themselves as
“anti-stalinists”, hate and curse Stalin while they often refer
to the so-called “crimes” of Stalin's era. What is a
contradiction and an irony of history is the following: Che Guevara
himself was an admirer of Joseph Stalin.
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