KKE honors the 200 executed communist heroes of Kaisariani with mass political rally

At the historic site of the Kaisariani Shooting Range, where 200 communists were executed by Nazi occupation forces on May Day 1944, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, delivered a political speech during a mass political-cultural event organized by the Party Organization of Attica on Saturday evening.

The event, held under the theme “Reading the history of the world through small names,” was marked by the recent publication of photographic documents from the execution—images that, as Koutsoumbas stressed, have deeply moved and shaken society.

Communist forces strengthened at the Congress of the General Confederation of Greek Workers

PAME rally in Athens (Archive Photo)

The recent Congress of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), held on 16–19 April, confirmed the strengthening of class-oriented, Communist-led forces within the Greek trade union movement.

The forces of DAS rallied in PAME (All-Workers Militant Front), alongside other militant trade unionists, recorded a significant rise in votes, reaching around 27% of the delegates, the highest level in decades. This increase was the largest among all competing lists, reflecting a steady shift in the balance of forces within the labour movement. 

KKE: U.S and Israel exploit fragile ceasefire as deadly strikes hit Lebanon

The Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued a statement regarding Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanon and the statements made by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

“Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanon—among the most lethal in recent weeks—demonstrate that the United States and Israel are exploiting the fragile ceasefire, which also included Lebanon, in order to recalibrate their attack tactics, at a time when none of the originally declared objectives of their imperialist intervention in Iran have been achieved.

Greek soldiers at the forefront of the struggle against the imperialist war and for Greece’s withdrawal from it

Many young conscripts made a distinct, symbolic, and meaningful presence felt at the recent workers’ rally in Athens against the imperialist war and for Greece’s withdrawal from it. By taking part in the mass rally organized by the trade unions, they stood side by side with their colleagues, fellow students, and parents. Together they chanted the slogan: “Conscripts are the children of the people and have no business outside the borders”.

KKE's Koutsoumbas warns of “extremely dangerous escalation” as Greece is drawn deeper into Iran war

Amid the intensification of the US–Israel war against Iran and growing pressure on allied states to contribute to military operations—particularly in the strategically crucial Strait of Hormuz—the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumbas, has issued a stark warning about the risks of a wider regional conflagration and Greece’s deepening involvement in it.

 

Political Bureau of the CC of the KKE: No sacrifices for the imperialists’ wars – Greece out of the war

Statement by the Political Bureau of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 

No sacrifices for the imperialists’ wars – Greece out of the war

1. The KKE calls on the working class, the people and the youth to remain vigilant and to take militant action. Let the alarm be sounded everywhere. Let opposition to the imperialist war and to our country’s dangerous involvement in it be expressed and strengthened. Our country must not become a target for reprisals. The people and their children must not be made to bear the consequences of war. 

Massive KKE rally in Greece sends message of solidarity with Cuba: “CUBA IS NOT ALONE!”

Thousands of people gathered on Wednesday afternoon at Syntagma Square in Athens in a massive demonstration of internationalist solidarity with Cuba and its heroic people, organized by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).

The rally sent a strong political message against the decades-long U.S. blockade and imperialist threats, with demonstrators chanting and proclaiming that “Cuba is not alone.”

KKE's leader Koutsoumbas refutes Mitsotakis' pretexts over Greece's involvement in the Middle East war

“Developments speak for themselves and shatter the complacency you have fostered for so long, while confirming the persistent warnings of the KKE”, said Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), at the start of his speech in Parliament on 4 March. Addressing the Prime Minister, he refuted the propaganda that “as long as US forces are here, no one will bother us”, at a time when US bases across the region are coming under attack.

Shut Down All U.S–British Bases in Greece and Cyprus!

By Nikos Mottas 

The recent alert in Cyprus following threats of Iranian drone and retaliatory missile strikes once again exposes a dangerous reality that governments in Athens and Nicosia persistently attempt to obscure: the presence of U.S., NATO and British military bases turns both Greece and Cyprus into potential targets in an expanding imperialist war.

For days now, the wider region has been moving ever closer to the possibility of a generalized confrontation in the Middle East. The escalation triggered by the aggressive policies of the United States and Israel against Iran has already created a climate of extreme tension across the entire Eastern Mediterranean. 

KKE calls for popular mobilization to disengage Greece from the US–Israeli war in the Middle East

The Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued the following statement (here in Greek) regarding developments in the Middle East war and the deployment of military forces to Cyprus:

“The latest dramatic developments in Cyprus, as well as in other countries of the region, in themselves demand that Greece disengage here and now from the flames of war ignited by the United States and Israel with their military attack on Iran.

 

Letter from the TKP to the KKE regarding the historical documents on the 200 communists in Kaisariani

TKP leader Kemal Okuyan in Kaisariani, May 2025

On the occasion of the release of the unique photographs depicting the execution of the 200 heroic communists by the Nazis, on 1 May 1944 in Kaisariani, Athens, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) sent a fraternal letter to the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).  

 

The letter — a memorial of proletarian internationalism — reads: 

To the leadership of the KKE

Dear comrades,

KKE: The photographs depicting the last moments of the 200 of Kaisariani reveal the moral greatness of the communists

Eighty-two years after the mass execution of 200 Greek communist fighters by the Nazis at the Athens' Kaisariani Shooting Range, photographs said to depict the victims’ final moments have surfaced for the first time. The images were discovered in an album listed in an online eBay auction by a seller based in Belgium. 

 

According to available information, the album appears to have belonged to a German officer who served in a unit stationed in Malakasa, in the outskirts of Athens, during the Occupation.

 

Communist forces triumph in Athens Labor Center elections

In a significant political breakthrough for the class-struggle movement in Greece, the All Workers Militant Front (PAME) — led by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) — has been confirmed as the dominant force in the elections of the Athens Labor Center, the largest and most influential workers’ organization in the country. 

The results of the 33rd Congress elections, concluded on Sunday, showed a clear strengthening of the DAS (Democratic Workers’ Movement) list, the PAME-aligned slate of rank-and-file workers’ representatives.

KKE on Mitsotakis–Erdoğan meeting: Dangerous complacency amid imperialist settlements

In a statement (here in Greek) regarding the meeting and the joint remarks by Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, within the framework of the Greece–Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses the following:

 

Dangerous Complacency at a Time When “Settlements” Are Being Advanced at the Expense of the Peoples

 

KKE calls on Mitsotakis government to reject Trump’s “Peace Council” invitation

In a statement (here in Greek) regarding the invitation extended by Trump to the Greek government to participate in the so-called “Board of Peace” the Press Office of the Central Committee of the KKE stresses the following:

“The Greek government must, without hesitation, reject Trump’s invitation to the upcoming meeting of the so-called “Board of Peace”, whose aim is to implement the plan to turn Gaza into a US–Israeli protectorate and an “El Dorado”  for investments, in which there will be no place for the homeland of the long-suffering Palestinian people.

KKE: The new crime with 15 dead migrants bears the stamp of the EU and the bourgeois governments of Greece and Turkey

15 dead migrants: A crime bearing the stamp of the EU and the bourgeois governments of Greece and Turkey

Dimitris Koutsoumbas, General Secretary of the CC of the KKE,  speaking on 4 February 2026 in the plenary session of the Greek Parliament during the debate on the bill of the Ministry of Migration and Asylum for the “promotion of legal migration”, demanded that responsibility be assigned, those guilty be punished and a full investigation be carried out into the real circumstances of the tragedy in Chios. 

Koutsoumbas: The KKE will become strong, ready to answer the call of history, for socialism!

Photo: Eurokinissi

“A strong KKE, steadfast in every trial, ready to answer the call of History, for Socialism!”. With this slogan dominating the indoor Galatsi Olympic Stadium, amid an atmosphere of emotion and militant uplift, and in the presence of a large crowd of members and friends of the KKE and the KNE, the opening “kick-off” of the KKE’s 22nd Congress was given on Wednesday afternoon. 

The keynote address was delivered by the General Secretary of the CC of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, who took the podium to prolonged applause.

 

KKE-KNE: Mass political event in solidarity with the people of Venezuela held in Athens

Following the mobilizations that unfolded from the very first moment of the imperialist intervention in Venezuela, members and friends of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) from universities in Athens gathered on Thursday, 15 January, at the Athens University of Economics and Business for an event in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and, more broadly, with the struggles of the peoples worlwide.

 

Interview of the General Secretary of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas to "Riktpunkt"

During his recent visit to Sweden, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumbas, gave an in-depth interview to Riktpunkt, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP).

In the interview, conducted by Riktpunkt's Josef Brant, Koutsoumbas addresses a wide range of issues of international and domestic importance: developments within the Greek workers’ movement, the political role of KKE, imperialist war and militarization, the European Union, NATO, social democracy, fascism, and debates within the international communist movement.

 

KKE: Mitsotakis’ statement on the US intervention in Venezuela is cynical, vile, and disgraceful

In a statement concerning the despicable comment of the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' concerning the U.S attack in Venezuela, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), stresses out the following:

"Mitsotakis’ statement on the imperialist intervention of the United States in Venezuela is a cynical, vile, and disgraceful intervention for the Greek people, one that surpasses even Trump’s own statements.