From mid-December until today, conferences were held by the Regional Organizations of the KKE, and specifically by the Party Organizations of Central Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia - Thrace, Western Macedonia, Thessaly, Western Greece, Peloponnese, Epirus - Corfu - Lefkada, Central Greece - Euboea, Crete, the North and South Aegean, the Organizations abroad, as well as the Party Organization of Attica, the largest Organization of the Party.
Through these conferences, the Party completed a long, organized and substantive pre-congress party process was at all levels. This included discussion of the Central Committee’s Theses, rich reflection on developments in Greece and internationally, examination of the Party’s intervention, and the election of new guiding organs for the Organizations, Regional Secretaries, and delegates to the Congress.
It should be noted that the KKE organizations distributed 90,000 copies of the Theses and held dozens of meetings and events with thousands of workers, farmers, self-employed, and young people in schools and universities, in working-class neighbourhoods and elsewhere. These gatherings facilitated broad and public discussion of the Theses of the Central Committee and the need to struggle alongside the KKE.
On Wednesday, 28 January, the opening event of the 22nd Congress of the KKE will take place in a closed stadium in Athens. The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, will deliver a speech, followed by a theatrical performance of “The Manifesto” by B. Brecht.
The following day, Thursday, 29 January, the proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the KKE will continue at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Party, beginning with the presentation of the Central Committee's report to the delegates by Dimitris Koutsoumbas.
This will be followed by contributions from the delegates, discussion, and the vote on the Resolution of the 22nd Congress. The Congress will conclude on Saturday, 31 January, with the election of the members of the new Central Committee and the Central Audit Committee of the KKE.
Messages of greetings from around the world
After receiving relevant information from the International Relations Section of the Central Committee, dozens of Communist Parties worldwide,have sent messages of greetings to the 22nd Congress. These messages are being translated and will be published in the newspaper Rizospastis, the organ of the Central Committee of the KKE, and on the KKE’s news portal – https://www.902.gr/ .
The list of parties that have sent greetings so far is as follows:
- Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PADS)
- Argentinian Communist Party
- Communist Party of Australia
- Party of Labour of Austria
- Revolutionary Communist Party of Brazil
- Communist Party of Brazil
- Communist Party of Britain
- Communist Party of Cuba
- AKEL, Cyprus
- Communist Party of Denmark
- Force of the Revolution, Dominican Republic
- Communist Party of Ecuador
- Communist Workers' Party - For Democracy and Socialism (Finland)
- Revolutionary Party-Communists France
- Communist Revolutionary Party of France
- Communist Party (Germany)
- German Communist Party
- Communist Party of India
- Communist Party of Ireland
- Workers' Party of Ireland
- Communist Party of Israel
- Communist Front (Italy)
- Shiso-Undo
- Japanese Communist Party
- Jordanian Communist Party
- Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
- People's Revolutionary Party of Laos
- Lebanese Communist Party
- Communist Party of Luxembourg
- Communist Party of Mexico
- New Communist Party of the Netherlands
- Communist Party of Norway
- Communist Party of Pakistan
- Palestinian Communist Party
- Palestinian People's Party
- Paraguayan Communist Party
- Philippines Communist Party [PKP 1930]
- Communist Party of Poland
- Romanian Communist Party (21st century)
- Russian Communist Party (Internationalists)
- Organisation of Communists (Russia)
- Communists of Serbia
- Communists in Catalonia
- Communist Workers Party of Spain
- Communist Party of Sri Lanka
- JVP Sri Lanka
- Communist Party of Swaziland
- Communist Party of Sweden
- Swiss Communist Party
- Syrian Communist Party
- Communist Party of Turkey
- ML Today
- Communist Workers' Platform USA
- Communist Party of Venezuela
- Communist Party of Vietnam
