“A
terrible bazaar against uprooted refugees and immigrants”; that is
how the Communist Party of Greece characterizes the recent EU
Migration Summit. In a statement, among other things, the KKE points
out that “the dangerous decisions are summarized into more
entrapment of refugees and immigrants in Greece, more repression,
deportations and attack in the rights of immigrants and refugees,
countries-”storehouses” of immigrants, greater penetration of
european monopolies in third countries in the name of immigration
limitation”.
Showing posts with label Refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Refugees. Show all posts
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
World Refugee Day: PAME expresses its solidarity and support with the refugees
In a statement regarding the World Refugee Day, the Secretariat for Refugees and Immigrants of the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) expresses support and substantial solidarity with the refugees:
The sharpening of the competitions for business group profits, the exploitation and the imperialist interventions have resulted in millions of uprooted and persecuted people around the world, the increase in 2018 of arrivals of refugees in our country. Thousands of them are trapped under outrageous conditions, stacked in the Reception and Identification Centers.
Monday, June 18, 2018
PCPE: Don't be fooled by PSOE government's "good will" gestures on refugees
The Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) salutes the offer made by the Government to
accept in the port of Valencia the ship “Aquarius”, which has more than 600 people on board, among
them more than one hundred children and pregnant women as well, and has evidenced once again
the reactionary nature of the European Union, unable to give a humanitarian response to the denial of
the governments of Italy and Malta to allow the arrival of such ship to their coasts.
Friday, May 4, 2018
"Phony promises": Comment by the KKE on Tsipras' visit and speech in Lesvos
In a statement regarding the visit and speech of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in the island of Lesvos, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece made the following comment:
"In the midst of generalized outcry from the people and intense police presence, Mr Tsipras tried with hollow words of sympathy, phony promises and his familiar exploitation of the people movement's history, to conceal his tremendous responsibilities for the harsh reality that the people of the islands experience, especially of those in the borders, like Lesvos.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Message to Netanyahu: Thousands rallied against refugees' deportation in Tel Aviv
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday night, March 24, to protest against the government’s racist plan to deport African refugees and asylum seekers. The rally was organized by a coalition of Sudanese and Eritrean groups, along with the “Stop the Expulsion” movement, “Standing Together” and the group “South Tel Aviv against the Expulsion.” Several Communist and Hadash activists participated in the protest, among them MK Dov Khenin (Joint List), a resident of Tel Aviv.
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Tragedy: At least 16 dead after migrant boat sinks in eastern Aegean - Statement by the Communist Party of Greece
Archive Photo. |
Sixteen people, including at least five children, drowned earlier on Saturday when the small boat they were travelling on capsized near the island of Agathonisi, in eastern Aegean Sea.
The nationality of the victims was not immediately known. The incident was thought to be the highest death toll of migrants trying to reach outlying Greek islands for months.
The nationality of the victims was not immediately known. The incident was thought to be the highest death toll of migrants trying to reach outlying Greek islands for months.
Three people — two women and a man — managed to reach the coast and alert authorities to the boat sinking. The three told authorities they had been in a wooden boat carrying an estimated 21 people which sank, for reasons that were not immediately clear.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Joke of the year: Erdogan will receive a.... "peace award"!
This could be, without doubt, the best joke of the year. According to a soL international report, the International Pediatric Association (IPA) announced on March 11 that it would give the ‘International Peace Award’ to Turkey’s warmongering President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for helping refugee children!
The award came after the IPA officials visited the refugee camps in Turkey. Announcing the IPA decision, Kerem Hasanoğlu, the head of the association’s external relations department, said that the association decided to award Erdoğan for his government’s role in the services regarding the refugee children.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Statement of the KKE on International Migrants Day - بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للمهاجر
On the occasion of International Migrants Day, the KKE expresses its solidarity and support for the refugees and economic migrants living in our country, as well as Greek immigrants living and working abroad. It calls upon them to organize and struggle in the ranks of the class-oriented labour movement to join with the KKE:
- Defending and expanding their labour, social and democratic rights
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
KKE: "The 65.6 million refugees are victims of a system that brings war, horror and death"
Giant banners raised by the KKE at the Acropolis, in support of the refugees, Oct. 2015. |
In a statement regarding the World Refugee Day, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) points out the following:
"The 65.6 million refugees and domestically displaced people are not just a "humanitarian crisis". It is the tragic confirmation of the actual character of a system which, when it cannot give solutions to its contradictions by crushing peoples' rights, resorts to war sowing horror, death and refugees. The imperialist war crushes whatever imperialist peace leaves intact.
The SYRIZA-ANEL government, which cultivates the myth of the supposedly humanitarian stance towards the refugees, isn't innocent. It is responsible for the entrapment of 62,000 refugees in (mainland) Greece and the double entrapment- under miserable conditions- in the islands. It brought the special NATO naval force in the Aegean, using the refugees and immigrants as a pretext. It gives 2.4% of the GDP, 4 billion euros every year- stealing from workers, unemployed, pensioners, young people- to the murderous NATO machine.
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Communist Youths in Thessaloniki: "Solidarity with the refugees. Our enemy is capitalism"
Singing the 'Internationale' with the fists raised. |
In a political event held in Thessaloniki, Greece on Saturday afternoon, communist youth organisations from six countries (Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Serbia and Germany) declared their internationalist solidarity to the refugees. The event was organised by the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) and was attended by representatives of five communist youths:
The Socialist German Workers Youth; The Collective of Communist Youths - Spain ; The Young Communists Front - Italy; The League of Yugoslav Communist Youth- Serbia and the Communist Youth of Turkey.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
KKE: Statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued the following statement:
"Fifty-one years after the proclamation by the UN, with the
decisive contribution of the Soviet Union, of the 21st
of March as the International Day against Racial Discrimination, the
capitalist world, in the USA, the EU, in Greece, is showing more and
more clearly its inhuman character against refugees and immigrants,
to the victims of imperialist wars and capitalist exploitation.
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Shocking conditions for refugees as winter cold and snow cover settled over Greece - Question by the KKE in the Parliament asking for immediate measures
Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall are making life even harder for thousands of refugees living in limbo across Greece. Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas admitted that the situation on the islands due to the sub-zero temperatures is not acceptable but suggested that the main reason for this is that locals have obstructed plans to expand reception facilities so migrants can be moved out of the hotspots, where some are housed in tents.
"The UN Refugee Agency is today reiterating its call to accelerate the moving of asylum seekers from the Aegean islands to the Greek mainland," spokesman Adrian Edwards said last Friday in Geneva. "The need for better protection will become all the more acute this weekend when temperatures on the islands are expected to drop. We are worried."
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
KKE: Statement regarding PM Tsipras' remarks on the refugee-migrant crisis
Regarding the speech of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the 71st UN General Assembly- and his remarks on the refugee crisis- the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece issued the following statement:
"The Prime Minister not only didn't find a word to say about the real causes and those responsible for the wars and the refugee crisis in our region, but, furthermore, he justified the violation of the refugees' rights and of the Geneva Convention by adopting the arguments of the imperialist staffs about the "maintaining of social cohesion" and "public safety".
However, the refuge isn't a natural phenomenon; it is caused by the imperialist war, the antagonisms between the powerful ones, the poverty that capitalist exploitation creates.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Hate, Bigotry, Racism: The 'Jihadists' of the Greek Orthodox Church
SPECIAL TO IN DEFENSE OF COMMUNISM.
This
is not a post about religion and faith. Historical materialism, as it
has been analyzed in the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and others,
represents our perspective on the “opium of the people”. However,
this article focuses on the Greek Orthodox Church as an institution
and her high ranking representatives. Before going to our major
issue, let us remind the following: a) according to article 3.1 of
the Constitution of Greece (Hellenic Republic) “the prevailing
religion in Greece is that of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Christ”,
b) the Church of Greece is, in fact, an institution tied to the
bourgeois Greek state, as long as priests (of all ranks) are civil
servants and their salaries are paid from the State. c) the Church of
Greece, with an estate of billion euros, is largely benefited by a
series of tax exemptions.
The
reactionary and regressive role of the Church of Greece through
history is, more or less, known. Since the formation of the
independent Greek state in 1830, the Orthodox Church has been always
part of the establishment- from the Ottoman rule to the formation of
the Kingdom of Greece and from the 1940s Nazi occupation to the
1967-1974 military dictatorship, the leadership of the Greek Orthodox
Church played its role as a staunch ally of the established order.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Communist Party of Greece (KKE): Statement for the World Refugee Day
Source: 902.gr / Translation: In Defense of Communism.
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, the Press Office of the CC of KKE issued the following statement:
"The
UN data for 2015- with the unprecedented number of 65.3 million
refugees and domestically displaced people, 50% of which are children
and 5.4 million people who became refugees for first time in 2015- is
the mirror of a system which the only that has to offer is crises,
poverty, wars, uprooting and refugees. The (the data) also show that
if people do not put their own stamp, targeting the actual
responsible, the monopolies and the imperialist war, the millions of
the persecuted and uprooted people will be increasing every year.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
What is the actual role of the NGOs in Greece's Refugee Crisis?
What is the role of the NGOs?
Source: Rizospastis / Translation: In Defense of Communism.
In Rizospastis' travelogue in refugee camps around the country, which started on May 29, there are shocking information about the entrapment, the miserable living conditions, the wounds that the war has left to thousands of people. This journalistic travelogue will continue in the following days, in an effort to highlight all the aspects of the refugee-immigration question.
One aspect, for example, is what is happening with the so-called "Non-Governmental Organisations" (NGOs), which literally have the total control inside the refugee camps, operating as "state within the state". The government has left in their hands the infrastructures (which host refugees), while- along with the EU- provides to these NGOs financial aid of many million euros. Various organisations have taken control of all services. From the feeding sector to the entertainment of the refugee children. From Ellinikon to Ritsona, in Larisa and in Central Macedonia.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
War and Refugees in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. The dangerous role of the EU and NATO
Imperialists
Collide: War and Refugees in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle
East. The
dangerous role of the EU and NATO.
Remarks
of Kostas Papadakis, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and member of the CC of KKE, at
the panel organised by the site Marxism-Leninism
Today, at the Left Forum John Jay College, City University of New
York, May 21, 2016.
We
would like to thank Marxism-Leninism Today for the opportunity
afforded to us to hold a discussion today, here in New York, on
serious issues related to the struggle of the KKE (Communist Party of
Greece), specifically our internationalist struggle. Greece
and the USA may be separated by thousands of miles, but our goal and
ambition is for communists and radical militants to form unified
criteria in terms of examining the developments and organizing the
struggle for the interests of the working class.
Our
tool for this must be our worldview, Marxism-Leninism, which provides
us with the capacity to draw the necessary conclusions regarding the
causes and development of complex issues that mark the era of the
highest stage of capitalism, imperialism. Above all, communists at an
international level must form a unified revolutionary strategy
against a ruthless and powerful enemy, the capitalist system. This
is not a task for a distant and undefined future. It is something
absolutely necessary in today's conditions. Its absence leaves its
mark on the developments, makes it difficult for the workers and the
poor popular strata on both sides of the Atlantic to understand that
the capitalist system is their real enemy, to recognize its objective
laws and the methods it uses to achieve its goal, which is none other
than the safeguarding of the maximum profitability possible and its
own perpetuation as a system.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Mikis Theodorakis: The Pope, the predators and the hunted
Translation from Greek: In Defense of Communism.
I
am watching in live broadcast the visit of the Pope, the Religious
Leader of the majority of Europe's people in Lesvos, where tens of
thousands victims from Syria and other Middle East countries- who
defying death and leaving behind dozens of drowned, especially
children- arrived from Turkey.
Who
is responsible for that big tragedy that millions of innocent fellow
humans are living today?
It
is the Black Death that the US and Europe's states, which have war
industries, are exporting. How many thousands houses, schools,
hospitals and other infrastructures were demolished, how many million
people were killed or injured and how many of them were uprooted from
their countries and forced to search a foreign refuge because of the
weapons made by the hands of Europeans and Americans...
Here
it is the splendor, the big crime of our era with the modern
victimizers-predators from the one side and their victims-quarries from
the other. The big crime which transforms our era into a Jungle and
the uncountable hypocrisy of the supposedly civilized European People
who seal their countries with wire, like the Nazis were doing with
the numerous Auschwitz, Dachau and Mauthausen. With the difference (being) that, this time, the victimizers are inside and the victims are out.
Monday, April 11, 2016
KKE: Comment on the situation of the refugees in Idomeni
Source: 902.gr / Translation: In Defense of Communism.
In a comment regarding the ongoing developments in Idomeni, the Press Bureau of the CC of KKE stresses the following:
"The complete lack, for months now, of any kind of state responsibility in Idomeni - as a result of the refugees' entrapment agreement signed between the SYRIZA-ANEL government and the EU - is the basic factor which leads thousands of refugees to despair and desperation, thus leaving space for the unaccountable activity of various suspicious NGOs which, under the mantle of "solidarity", are playing games of domestic and foreign powers on the shoulders of refugees. On the same time, that (situation) becomes an allibi for violence and repression from the side of FYROM's government which is alligned with the aspirations of imperialist states and organisations like NATO and the EU.
Sunday, April 10, 2016
VIDEO: Golden Dawn's Neo-Nazi thugs attack TV crew in Piraeus
A Neo-Nazi wearing a Golden Dawn t-shirt attacks the crew of E TV channel during clashes in Piraeus. The attack occured during Golden Dawn members' clash with anti-fascist demonstrators- the Nazi Party had staged an anti-refugee gathering a few minutes earlier.
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