It was 66 years ago, on 18th February 1952, when the Greek Parliament ratified the country's accession in the imperialist North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Greece's NATO membership turned the country into a base for the adventurous plans of the imperialists, both against the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries and in the broader region of the Middle East. At the same time, it was a decision that led our people in very dangerous situations, with poignant results which, seven decades later, continue to afflict Greece's political affairs.
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Vladimir Putin, Communism and Christianity
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature , the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people". - Karl Marx. [1]
By Nikos Mottas*.
A
few days ago, during
an
interview for the documentary Valaam an excerpt of which was
broadcast on Russia 1 TV
channel, Russian President Vladimir Putin likened communism to
christianity and Vladimir I. Lenin's mausoleum to the veneration of
the relics of saints.
More
specifically, Putin said: “First
of all, faith has always accompanied us, becoming stronger every time
our country, our people, have been through hard times.
There
were those years of militant atheism when priests were eradicated,
churches destroyed, but at the same time a new religion was being
created. Communist ideology is very similar to Christianity, in fact:
freedom, equality, brotherhood, justice – everything is laid out in
the Holy Scripture, it’s all there. And the code of the builder of
communism? This is sublimation, it’s just such a primitive excerpt
from the Bible, nothing new was invented.”
Monday, January 1, 2018
“Gulag Archipelago”: Exposing the anticommunist fabrications of Solzhenitsyn
By Nikos Mottas*.
One
of the most famous and celebrated works of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the
“Gulag Archipelago”, has been for a long time a kind of “holy
bible” for every anticommunist. Firstly published in 1973, it-
supposedly- consists an analytical record of the conditions existed
in the so-called “labour camps” of the Soviet Union. Within the
framework of the slanderous anticommunist campaign, bourgeois
historiography has extensively promoted Solzhenitsyn's work as a
source of arguments about the so-called “Stalinist dictatorship”
and “communist crimes” in the Soviet Union.
However,
there is a fundamental problem in the work of the deeply reactionary
Solzhenitsyn: Gulag Archipelago is a completely antiscientific book,
based almost entirely in rumors, speculations, third party opinions
as well as interpretations of opinions by Solzenitsyn himself! In
other words, the reader of this book becomes “hostage” of a novel
type, unverifiable, recording to alleged events by Solzenitsyn and
others who supposedly “saw”, “heard” or “learned”
something.
Monday, December 11, 2017
When Donald Trump Falsifies History
A response to U.S. President Trump's blatant falsification of historical events.
By Nikos Mottas.
Donald Trump seems to have his own version of history. A version that falsifies completely the real historical events. The tycoon- turned President of the USA- decided to demonstrate his ignorance (or, perhaps, ability to distort history) during a Republican Party's rally in Pensacola, Florida on December 8th.
What did Trump say? Among others, the U.S. President said the following: “We are the nation that dug out the Panama Canal, won two world wars, put a man on the moon and brought communism to its knees".
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Tsipras and Erdogan, both enemies of the working class in Greece and Turkey
By Nikos Mottas.
The
visit of the Turkish President Erdogan in Greece has concluded. A lot
of things were said in front of cameras and, certainly, even more
behind closed doors. We could write about several conclusions
regarding the undisputable upgrade of Ankara's assertions against
Greece's sovereign rights, the unacceptable demand for the revision
of the Treaty of Lausanne, the pretexts of President Erdogan
regarding minorities, etc.
However,
if we would like to summarize the very essense of Erdogan's visit, we
must briefly- and clearly- point out the following:
- Both President Erdogan, as well as the Greek leadership, repeated in their public statements the (trite) wishes about “good neighborly relations”, “mutual respect”, “friendship” and “peace” between the two countries. All these are empty words, taking into account that within the framework of imperialism, within the framework of the NATO alliance – members of which are both countries – actual friendship and peace cannot exist. This is a given and multiple times proven in the passage of history truth. Therefore, with these words, Tsipras and Erdogan do not deceive each other, but they deceive together the Greek and Turkish people.
Monday, November 27, 2017
Fidel Castro: Always Alive In Our Minds And Hearts
By Nikos Mottas.
A year has passed since the death of Cuban Revolution's historic leader, Fidel Castro Ruz. A real communist and internationalist who, through his life and action, put his stamp indelibly in the history of Cuba and Latin America. Fidel was a man whose name became synonymous to Freedom, Revolution and Dignity, leaving a valuable legacy to the international communist movement and the people of Cuba.
Comandante Castro's political legacy continues to inspire the Cuban people in the consistent struggle against the genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade that the U.S. governments have imposed, as well as against the multiform attempts by imperialist centers in the USA and the EU to undermine socialist construction in Cuba.
Saturday, September 30, 2017
The forgotten holocaust: The 1965-66 massacre against Indonesia's communists
Without
any doubt, the WWII Holocaust and the 1915 Armenian genocide consist
the two largest mass slaughters of the 20th century. They
are crimes which must never be erased from the collective memory of
the peoples, no matter how many decades will pass.
However, there are
also less known sides of History, the “forgotten” holocausts to
which the bourgeois historiography has given little importance,
either by downgrading them as insignificant details of world history
or by distorting their true dimensions.
A major example of such a
“forgotten” holocaust is the mass slaughter of the communists in
Indonesia by Suharto's dictatorship during the 1965-66.
Monday, July 24, 2017
Tsipras-Varoufakis: Loyal servants of the capitalist system
During
the last few days we are witnessing a highly hypocritical “blame
game” between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his former finance
minister Yanis Varoufakis. In his latest book titled “Adults in the
room”, Varoufakis tries to present himself as a “fighter” who
resisted Europe's “deep establishment”.
In his “political
thriller”, the ex-finance minister describes
how the Tsipras government handled the negotiations with its
creditors, outlining the role each government official played during
that period.
As
for his former collaborator, Varoufakis writes among other things:
“Alexis
Tsipras appears totally overwhelmed, unable to collide with his own
consultants who were pro loan agreement, in some cases he was totally
manipulated by the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ Troika”.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
SYRIZA: The "left" servants of NATO
In
the name of the so-called “geostrategic enhancement” doctrine of
the country and following the path of the previous governments of New
Democracy and PASOK, the SYRIZA-ANEL government has been proved
NATO's "best student". Since its formation on January 2015,
the governmental alliance between the social democratic SYRIZA and
the nationalist ANEL party has aligned itself with the dangerous
plans and goals of the imperialists.
Friday, May 5, 2017
Comandante Fidel Castro and the apologists of capitalism - By Nikos Mottas
The
death of Fidel Castro last November unfolded, both
in Greece as well as internationally, an orchestrated attack against
the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and socialist Cuba.
A patchwork of anticommunism, from the far-right to the edge of social democracy, didn't lose the opportunity to slander the cuban revolutionary, either by attributing to him various characterizations (e.g dictator, controversial personality, etc) or by reproducing proven lies about his supposed fabulous wealth and personal life.
A patchwork of anticommunism, from the far-right to the edge of social democracy, didn't lose the opportunity to slander the cuban revolutionary, either by attributing to him various characterizations (e.g dictator, controversial personality, etc) or by reproducing proven lies about his supposed fabulous wealth and personal life.
They
tried to vilify Fidel with numerous slanders.... That he was a
dictator who installed a repressing establishment, that socialism was
proved- as some claimed- a 'chimera' which gave birth to
authoritarianism, lack of democracy and freedom.
Friday, March 31, 2017
20th KKE Congress: The international communist movement praises the contribution of the KKE
More than 100 are the communist and workers' parties which have sent letters of solidarity and greetings to the Cenral Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on the occasion of the Party's 20th Congress.
From Latin America to the Far East, communists highlight the significant contribution of the KKE in the efforts for the reconstruction and strengthening of the international communist and workers movement, as well as for the Party's internationalist solidarity. Here are some characteristic examples:
Thursday, March 30, 2017
NIKOS BELOYANNIS, The Man with the Carnation: Always alive in the hearts and consciousness of the people
Beloyannis, who is known as "the man with the carnation", was a cadre of the - then illegal- Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He and his comrades had waged an unwavering struggle against foreign imperialism and its local allies. For his political activity and ideological beliefs he was arrested, tried and executed.
“We believe in the most correct theory which has been conceived by the most progressive minds of humanity. And our effort, our struggle, is that this theory becomes a reality in Greece and the entire world (…) We love Greece and its people more than our accusers (…) Precisely because we struggle so that our country will see better days, without hunger and war (…) and when it is necessary, we sacrifice our lives.”
- Nikos Belogiannis, abstract of his defense speech at the military tribunal.
Friday, March 17, 2017
Karl Marx: The Man Who Changed The World Forever
By Nikos Mottas*.
"On
the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the
greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for
scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his
armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever”.
With these words, Friedrich Engels had opened his speech during Karl
Marx's funeral at London's Highgate cemetery. This year marks the
134th
anniversary since the death of the greatest thinker in the history of
mankind; the man who tried not only to interpret the world but to
change it. And, indeed, Marx's theoretical work became the basis for
social change, highlighting the scientific perception of the class
struggle as the driving force of History.
"The
genius of Marx”,
Lenin wrote, "lies
in his having been the first to deduce from the lesson world history
teaches and to apply that lesson consistently. The deduction he made
is the doctribe of the class struggle”
(V.I.Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism).
Marx's thought and work consists a milestone in the history of
philosophy, political economy and social sciences. As Lenin wrote,
the Marxist theory “is
the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the
nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English
political economy and French socialism”.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
SYRIZA: Capitalism's social democratic servant
By Nikos Mottas*.
The
25th of January marked the two years since SYRIZA's
electoral victory. During these two years the political deception of
SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras was fully exposed. The promises of the
“left-wing” SYRIZA- about the supposed “tearing” of the
memorandums, the end of austerity, the abolition of unjust taxation,
the incrase of wages and pensions- were proved a colossal piece of
political knavery. During the last two years, the government of
Alexis Tsipras was proved an excellent implementer of capital's
anti-people policy, thus walking on the steps of its predecessors,
the governments of New Democracy and PASOK.
Since
January 2015 and its electoral triumph, the “left-wing” SYRIZA,
in governmental alliance with the right-wing, nationalist party
“ANEL”, managed to sign and vote a 3rd memorandum of
austerity with even harder measures than the previous two; to pass
hundreds of harsh anti-people, anti-workers laws; to demolish pension
rights; to impose additional heavy taxation to the popular strata; to
proceed to further privatizations of state property; to attack social
security rights through supposed “reforms” which demolishes
whatever has remained from the workers'-people's rights.
Friday, January 20, 2017
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: His revolutionary legacy remains alive and timely
By Nikos Mottas.
It was in the dawn of January 21, 1924, 93 years ago, when the heart of the greatest revolutionary in history, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, stopped beating. Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution and architect of the first socialist state in the world, was 54 years old.
The name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is
identified with two dialectically connected issues. On the one hand,
there is his revolutionary activity and practice as the leader of the
20th century's most significant event- the 1917 Great
October Socialist Revolution. On the other hand, there is his
theoretical work which is the development of the revolutionary theory
of Marx and Engels in the era of Imperialism. That extraordinary
combination of revolutionary theory and practice makes Lenin a unique
personality in history who, 93 years after his death, remains “alive”
in the collective memory and hearts of the working class people
across the world.
Friday, December 23, 2016
USSR 1991 – History did not end with the counterrevolution; Socialism is timely and necessary
It
was December 26, 1991 – 25 years ago- when the red flag with the
sickle and hammer was lowered from the Moscow Kremlin. It was then,
during the cold days of December, when the first socialist state of
the world, the homeland of the world's proletariat, bent under the
weight of the counterrevolution. Four days before, on December 22nd,
the leaderships of three of the largest Soviet republics had decided
the dissolution of the USSR, while the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union had been outlawed on summer of the same year.
The
events of December 1991 sealed the victory of the counterrevolution,
as the result of a process which officially began in 1985 with the
Perestroika and reached its peak in 1989 with the overthrow of
Socialism. Of course, the roots of the counterrevolution can be
traced back in a series of revisionist-opportunist decisions taken at
the CPSU's 20th Congress back in 1956.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIALIST CUBA: Refuting the bourgeois slanders against Fidel Castro
EDITORIAL
The death of Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz on November 25 sparked a barrage of vulgar statements, declarations and comments from various bourgeois sources. Liberals, neoliberals, conservatives, neo-Nazis and other apologists of Capitalism's barbarity tried to vilify Fidel as a "dictator" and Socialist Cuba as a "repressive dictatorship". Of course, the millions of Cuban people, of every age, who took the streets in order to say farewell to Comandante Fidel gave their powerful response to all these anticommunist slanderers. Was Fidel Castro a "dictator", as the bourgeois propaganda argues, or was he a champion of social justice and a hero to millions of people across the world?
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Thank You Compañero Fidel Castro!
THANK YOU COMPAÑERO FIDEL CASTRO!
By Nikos Mottas*.
"Rights are to be taken,
not requested; seized,
not begged for"
- Jose Marti.
After
25th November 2016 humanity is poorer. The international
working class, the people who fiught for a better world, those who
believe in a society without exploitation of man by man, are poorer.
Along with the proud people of Cuba, the international communist
movement mourns the biological death of one of the greatest, the most
emblematic revolutionaries of contemporary History. The heart of the
leader of the Cuban Revolution, Comandante Fidel Castro stopped
beating, marking the biological end of a life of 90 years full of
struggles and sacrifices for the ideals of Socialism-Communism, for a
Cuba where the people will be the masters of their destiny.
The death of Fidel, as well as the biological deaths of other extraordinary revolutionaries and communists like Lenin, Stalin, Che, Ho Chi Minch, consists a motive for the evaluation of their revolutionary work and legacy. A work and a legacy which are key factors in the formation of the class conciousness of the working class.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
The Berlin Wall and the bourgeois lies
By Nikos Mottas*.
The
9th of November consists a milestone for those who have
turned anticommunist propaganda into profession. It is the day when,
in 1989, the destruction of the so-called “Berlin Wall” began.
Since then, every year, we observe smaller or larger fiestas about the "fall of the Wall" and the restoration of Capitalism in the German
Democratic Republic (GDR). In these fiestas, the winners of the Cold
War employ their anticommunist imagination in order to celebrate the
“big event”- for example, in 2014, during the 25th
anniversary, among the official guests in Berlin was the miserable
puppet of international imperialism called Mikhail Gorbachev.
For
more than 26 years, within the framework of slanders against the
actual existed Socialism, the bourgeois historiography, the bourgeois
media as well as various opportunists engage in a war of distortions
regarding the history of the Berlin Wall. They deliberately vilify
the German Democratic Republic and the achievements of the socialist
construction while they attempt to manipulate the European and
international public opinion with the known, anti-scientific and
anti-historical equation between Communism and Fascism.
Monday, September 5, 2016
Why Socialism is superior to Capitalism- The achievements of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union
Why Socialism is far superior than Capitalism: The achievements of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union
By Nikos Mottas.
During
the last 25 years, after the victory of the counterrevolutionary
forces in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the public political
discussion has been dominated by the concept of the “end of
history, end of ideologies”. This is certainly a very convenient
concept for the dominant class, the bourgeoisie, in her effort to
convince the world that: 1) Socialism has irreversibly failed, 2)
Capitalism is the final winner in the succession of History's
socio-economic transformations, 3) Every argument for a
non-capitalist society, where the means of productions will be
socialized in a centrally-planned economy, is “unrealistic” and a
“utopian fantasy”.
Anticommunism,
of course, consists a core part of the above bourgeois principle. For
more than two decades, the bourgeois forces and their mechanisms
(historiography, media, etc.) in all over the world have unleashed an
anticommunist crusade, mainly through demonizing and slundering the
Soviet Union and the socialist construction of the 20th
century in general.
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