Aleka Papariga: The KKE’s stance towards bourgeois governments is a valuable tool for our current struggles

“Under capitalism, no government is an independent authority. Power is exercised by the bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois state is the instrument of its power, to which all institutions are subordinate. The decisions of the EU and NATO are binding and take precedence over national constitutions and national legislation. Governments of bourgeois management cannot and do not want to abolish the law of laws: capitalist profit. The defence of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by all means is inevitable and obligatory. Laws are abolished through the revolutionary overthrow of the system itself and the establishment of a new form of power: of the working class in a socialist communist society."

 

Dimitris Koutsoumbas: The people and the youth must have confidence in their own struggle, with the KKE by their side!

Dimitris Koutsoumbas, GS of the CC of the KKE, spoke at the large political rally in Patras, which was the culmination of the events of the 34^th Anti-Imperialist Camp of KNE.

Thousands of young people also chanted together ‘Freedom for Palestine’ and ‘The imperialists are redividing the world, drawing borders with the blood of the peoples’, sending a message of internationalist solidarity to all the people that are rising up and fighting for their freedom against capitalist barbarity.

Messages by Palestinian, Israeli and Iranian Communist Youths at the 34th Antiimperialist camp of KNE

The 34th Anti-Imperialist Camp of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), the young wing of the KKE, was successfully held at Alissos, Peloponnese from 2 to 6 of July. The events culminated on Friday 4 July with a political rally in the city of Patras, well as with an anti-imperialist demonstration at Araxos military base on Saturday 5 July.

Greeting messages to the participants of the Camp were sent from Communist Youths from Palestine, Israel and Iran. 

Below you can read the messages, which were published in 902.gr portal:  

The 34th Anti-Imperialist Camp of KNE kicks off: "With the peoples, against the system of injustice and war!"

Archive Photo: From a previous Anti-Imperialist Camp

‘With the peoples, all the way to freedom - against the system of injustice and war!’ This is the message of the thousands of young people from across Greece who have responded to the call of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) and will be meeting at the 34^th Anti-Imperialist Camp of KNE.

The Camp will take place from 2 to 6 July in Alissos, Achaia. As part of the event,  there will be a rally in Patras on Friday 4 July in the afternoon, where Dimitris Koutsoumbas, GS of the CC of the KKE, and Thodoris Kotsandis, Secretary of the Central Committee of KNE, will speak.

KKE's leader Koutsoumbas calls Greek government to end "all military cooperation with Israel"

"The developments in our region are critical! The murderous state of Israel, with its attack against Iran and backed by the USA, NATO, and the EU, has lit the fuse of war, with the danger of escalation across the entire region clearly visible," said the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Dimitris Koutsoumbas, on Monday.   

 

Furthermore, the General Secretary added: 

 

Honoring Aris Velouchiotis, 80 years since his death

By Nikos Mottas

The 16th of June 2025 marks the 80th anniversary since the death of the iconic Greek communist guerrilla Aris Velouchiotis. 

A member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and First Captain of the Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS) during World War Two, Velouchiotis has been a legendary personality of the Greek Resistance against the Axis occupation. 

Greece: Members of the KKE are prosecuted for their anti-war activities

Recently, the prosecution of members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the municipal authority of the city of Tirnavos, which was elected with the support of the KKE, began on the grounds of their participation in the mobilization that took place on 6 November 2024. 

 

During this mobilization, members of the KKE and KNE blocked six trucks carrying ammunition destined for Ukraine.

 

Communist Party of Greece (KKE): Imperialist War and the International Communist Movement

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) is in the process of preparing for its 22nd Congress, due to take place at the end of 2025.

In this context, the Central Committee of the KKE has elaborated and published a series of Resolutions addressing key issues in the activities of the KKE. These resolutions were published in the journal “Communist Review”, a theoretical and political organ of the CC of the KKE, and are currently being discussed throughout the organs and organisations of the Party and KNE. They are listed below in the order in which they were published:

Turkish and Greek young communists against NATO — Joint Statement by TKG and KNE

Joint Statement by the Communist Youth of Turkey (TKG) and the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) concerning NATO's military drills in the region:

NATO is conducting a massive military exercise involving 12,000 troops until June 9th in the Balkans, centered around Alexandroupolis/Dedeağaç. Led by the USA, which relentlessly seeks to tighten its grip on the region, this operation is not about defense—it is a blatant act of aggression, just like all other NATO maneuvers. As always, the ones caught in the crosshairs are the working people.

Abraham Benaroya: The Jewish pioneer of Socialism in Greece, one of the "fathers" of the KKE

By Nikos Mottas

Abraham (Avraam) Benaroya was born to a Shephardic Jew family in 1886 in Bidin, in the then Principality of Bulgaria, a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. He began studying at the Faculty of Law in the University of Belgrade, but didn't graduate; instead, he became a teacher in Plovdiv. Being a polyglot, Abraham was fluent in at least six languages, including Ladino, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, English and Turkish.  

KKE initiative on Palestine: D. Koutsoumbas sent a letter to the presidents of the opposition parliamentary groups

Mitsotakis and Netanyahu (Archive Photo)

On Thursday 22 May, in light of the dramatic developments experienced by the Palestinian people due to the brutality of the Israeli state, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the GS of the CC and President of the KKE Parliamentary Group, sent a letter to the leaders of the opposition parliamentary groups (excluding the fascists of the ‘Spartans’ party). Despite the different positions held by political parties, the letter was sent based on the unanimous decision of the Greek Parliament in 2015 to recognize the Palestinian state.

Communists in Greece block trucks with ammunition heading to Ukraine

Photo: 902.gr

Once again, forces of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its Youth wing, KNE, blocked trucks carrying ammunition to the slaughterhouse of Ukraine.

This time, members and supporters of the KKE and KNE blocked a convoy of trucks transporting 155mm calibers produced at the Hellenic Defense Systems SA and utilized on the front lines of the Ukrainian war. 

The incident took place in Lavrio, a town 40km south-east of Athens. 

KKE's leader Koutsoumbas: Greece must immediately recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders

In the face of dramatic situation experienced by the Palestinian people due to the brutality of the Israeli state, the General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and President of the Party's Parliamentary Group, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, sent a letter today to the leaders of the opposition Parties.

The letter proposes the creation of a joint draft text that will be addressed to the Greek government urging it to take - also in its capacity as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council - relevant initiatives on the following issues:

Communists achieve landslide victory for fourth year in a row in Greek university student elections

The university students in Greece sent a powerful message.

 

For a fourth consecutive year, "Panspoudastiki KS" (All Student Cooperation Movement), backed by KNE - the young wing of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) - emerges first in the nationwide student elections held on Thursday 14 May, throughout the country's universities and technological institutes. 

 

Greece: Communist trade unionists convicted due to anti-war activity!

Seven trade unionists, including a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and a member of the Bureau of the Central Council of KNE, were prosecuted for their anti-war actions on 6 April 2022 in the port of Thessaloniki. The prosecution was based on fabricated charges and flimsy evidence.

The Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece made the following statement:

KKE Secretary: "9 May will forever be engraved in the peoples' memory as the day of the Anti-Fascist Victory"

Various activities are being held by the party organizations of the KKE and KNE throughout Greece to commemorate the 80^th anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory.

On 4 May 2025, at the Kaisariani Shooting Range, right next to the site where on May Day 1944 the Nazis executed 200 communists, a large rally of the Attica Party Organization of the KKE was held to mark the 80^th anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples, with Dimitris Koutsoumbas, GS of the CC of the KKE, as the keynote speaker.

15 years of attacks on the working class and the popular strata of Greece

These days mark 15 years since the social-democratic PASOK government announced the activation of the “support mechanism” for the Greek economy by the EU and the IMF.

This was followed by three agreements (memoranda) with the EU for the “salvation” of the Greek economy, accompanied by thousands of anti-people laws at the expense of the working class and the popular strata. 

KKE's Secretary Koutsoumbas: Mitsotakis' meeting with war criminal Netanyahu an insult to genocide victims

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' meeting "with war criminal Netanyahu, while the genocide of the Palestinian people continues and escalates, is an insult to the victims of this crime, but also an insult to the Greek people who consistently express their solidarity with the suffering people of Palestine," stated Communist Party of Greece (KKE) General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas on Monday. 

Koutsoumbas was commenting on the Greek prime minister's meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Israel on Sunday.

KKE on Trump-Putin call: Imperialist peace and arrangements are the other side of imperialist war

In a statement issued on Wednesday 19 March, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) refers to the recent call between U.S President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin concerning the situation in Ukraine. The statement (here in Greek) reads:

“The drumbeats about a ceasefire in the 3-year imperialist war in Ukraine, between the US, NATO, EU and capitalist Russia, cannot overshadow the real facts and the painful reality of the continuation of the war that tortures the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, as well as the dangers for other peoples.

Mass graves of executed communists from the Civil War discovered in northern Greece

By Nikos Mottas

Two mass graves containing the remains of executed communists from the 1946-49 Civil War have been discovered in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city.

The graves were uncovered during redevelopment work close to the national resistance memorial, thus increasing the total of such sites in the area to six. The location of the graves indicates that it was likely used for the execution of political prisoners due to its proximity to the notorious Yedi Kule prison.