Paying tribute to all those heroes of the class struggle, the Central Committee of the KKE unveiled a monument created by sculptor Antonis Myrodias.
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Working Class Heroes: KKE event in honor of political prisoners held in Anafi island
Friday, May 6, 2022
Koutsoumbas: “The right side of history is the struggle against the imperialist war in every country”
Monday, May 2, 2022
May Day 2022 in Greece: "The working class does not bow its head" (VIDEO)
136 years since the uprising in Chicago, in the shadow of another imperialist war that is taking place for the profits of the capitalists, in the face of the escalating attack of governments against the workers' rights, the message of the May 1st protests throughout Greece is a beacon of hope.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
KKE-TKP: Joint statement by Dimitris Koutsoumbas and Kemal Okuyan
Following the meeting, the two leaders signed the following joint statement (in Greek and in Turkish):
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
D. Koutsoumbas: “We do not choose a camp between thieves, we choose the camp of the peoples”
The demonstrators united their voices under the slogan “No to the imperialist war in Ukraine”. They demanded that our country's involvement should stop. They shouted that they will not accept that the people pay the price of the war, that they face high prices that erode the income of the working class and greater energy poverty.
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Massive anti-war rally of the KKE in Athens
KKE rally in Syntagma Square, Friday 1 April 2022. |
Waving red flags and shouting anti-imperialist slogans, the demonstrators raised their voice against the imperialist war in Ukraine and expressed their firm opposition to Greece's involvement in the dangerous US-NATO-EU plans.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
D. Koutsoumbas: "The people of Ukraine have become a punching bag among ruthless imperialists"
Now they are being told that they must pay the price of Greece’s participation in imperialist war. To pay ‘the price of participation in the war for freedom’, as the Prime Minister, K. Mitsotakis, said.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
KKE leader Koutsoumbas blasts PM Mitsotakis on Greece's involvement in Ukraine war
In his speech, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, GS of the CC of the KKE, stressed, among other things, the following:
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Dimitris Koutsoumbas: No to imperialist war! Greece’s involvement must stop immediately!
The event took place in Lamia, the native city of Aris Velouchiotis, leader of ELAS and cadre of the KKE.
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
KKE votes against the new large armament programme, calls for Greece's disengagement from NATO-EU
This is another large armament programme integrated into the criminal USA–NATO–EU plans in which the local bourgeoisie is actively participating to enhance its role and business in the wider area while ND, SYRIZA, and the other bourgeois parties, despite their remarks on specific points, support its interests.
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.
Saturday, December 11, 2021
"The KKE is at the forefront of the anti-war, anti-imperialist movement and the workers–people’s movement"
Sunday, December 5, 2021
KKE and French communists honored the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune
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Friday, December 3, 2021
KKE leader Koutsoumbas pays tribute to the Paris Commune
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Later on, the General Secretary and a delegation of the KKE visited the “Communards' Wall” at Père Lachaise cemetery where Koutsoumbas laid a wreath in honor of the 147 fallen combatants of the 1871 Paris Commune. Flowers were also deposed to the graves of the General Secretary of the French Communist Party from 1930 to 1964 Maurice Thorez, communist poet Paul Éluard and communard chansonnier Jean-Baptiste Clement.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Dimitris Koutsoumbas — The struggle against “green” and “digital” capitalist barbarism
Below you can read the introductory speech delivered by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Dimitris Koutsoumbas:
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Visite du Secrétaire général du KKE Koutsoumbas à Paris
According to "Rizospastis" Koutsoumbas will pay a visit to Louvre museum on Thursday 2 December, while on Friday he will participate in a guided walk "on the footsteps of the Commune". On the same day he will lay a wreath at the Communards' Wall at the Père Lachaise cemetery where, on May 28, 1871, one-hundred and forty-seven fédérés, combatants of the Paris Commune, were shot and thrown in an open trench at the foot of the wall.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Vietnam's Vice President visits KKE headquarters in Athens
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan is on a visit to Greece, as the head of a multi-member delegation consisting by the president of the Women's Union, the deputy ministers of Foreign Affairs, Labour and Social Affairs, Planning and Investments, Industry and Trade, as well as other governmental officials. From the side of the KKE the meeting was also attended by Giorgos Marinos, Politburo member, MEP Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos and Christina Skaloumpaka, president of the Greek Women's Federation. The Ambassador of Vietnam in Greece Le Hong Truong also participated in the meeting.
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”.
Monday, September 27, 2021
Dimitris Koutsoumbas at KNE-Odigitis festival: "The KKE is here, for the society of true freedom, for socialism!"
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Greece: Thousands joined PAME rally, sent powerful message to Mitsotakis' government
Under the slogan “Only the people can save the people. The justified indignation must become a force of organization and struggle”, numerous protesters from Thessaloniki and the broader region of Central Macedonia sent a militant message to the ND government and the employers.