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Student Elections
18.05.2012
The communists strengthened their position amongst the students. On May 16th the student union elections were held in order to elect the representatives to their unions. In these elections, which were held just a few days after the early parliamentary elections on the 6th of May...

STATEMENT OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF THE CC OF THE KKE
On the NATO Summit Meeting in Chicago
17.05.2012

The stance in relation to the imperialist organization of NATO helps every conscious worker to separate the “wheat from the chaff”.


A major rally of the KKE in Athens
15.05.2012
“We do not want a government for the plutocracy,
we struggle and vote for an other power.”
Thousands of workers, employees, youth, women, and families from the popular strata participated in a determined and militant fashion at the Pedion Areos, in the rally of the KKE,....

Anger when it is led along militant pathways always yields something better: A strong KKE
14.05.2012
The fraudulent process of the exploratory mandates for the formation of a government lasted one week. A process in which a series of misleading and intimidating dilemmas were regurgitated...

Introduction of the GS of the CC of the KKE, Aleka Papariga, to the press conference
11.05.2012

The Assessment of the KKE regarding the revealing procedure-fraud of the exploratory mandates, which were part of the general plan for the mass manipulation and the disarmament of the people with the focus on the next elections


The cadres of the CP of Israel must be released
In parallel with the formation of a bourgeois government of “national unity”, which is probably connected to the needs to conduct an imperialist regional war, the bourgeois class of Israel is intensifying its aggressiveness against its “internal enemy”, the Communist Party of Israel and other militants of the people’s movement...

Comment of the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE

10.05.2012
The KKE is a "thorn in the side” of the bourgeoisie and the opportunists

Intervention of the KKE at the European Parliament about 9th May
10.05.2012

Babis Agourakis, MEP of the KKE highlighted the real meaning of 9th May, the Day of the Antifascist Victory of the people with his intervention during the plenary session of the European parliament. He stressed amongst others:


A “Left government” is a “leaking lifeboat” for the people who are suffering
09.05.2012

The head of Syriza, A. Tsipras, who received on the 8th of May the exploratory mandate from the President of the Republic to form a government and began contacts....




Comparative table of the parties’ results
 which passed the 3 % limit in order to be represented in parliament

 

ELECTIONS 2012

ELECTIONS 2009

COMPARISON

100%

Participation:65,05 %

Votes: 6.476.751

Valid: 6.324.104 / 97,64 %

Participation: 70.95 %

Votes: 7,044,606 /

Valid: 6,858,421

Participation:  -5,9%

Votes: -567.855

Valid: -534.317

 

Votes

%

seats

Votes

%

seats

votes

%

seats

KKE

Communist Party of Greece

536.072

8.5%

26

517.249

7.5

21

+18.823

+1%

+5

New Democracy-ND

(Liberal party)

1.192.054

18.9%

108

2.295.719

33.5

91

-1.103.665

-14.6

+17

SYRIZA

(alliance of opportunist forces and forces from PASOK)

1.061.265

16.8%

52

315.665

4.6

13

+745.600

+12.2%

+39

PASOK

(social-democrats)

833.529

13.2%

41

3.012.542

44

160

-2.179.013

-30.8

-119

Independent Greeks

(split from ND).

670.596

10.6%

33

It did not participate in 2009. It split from ND in 2012 with 10 MPs

+670.596

+10.6%

+23

 

Golden Dawn

(nationalist, racist party)

440.894

7%

21

19.624

0.3 %

 

-

+421.270

+6,7%

+21

Democratic Left

(split from Syriza and merged with some forces from PASOK)

386.116

6,1%

19

It did not participate in 2009. it split from SYRIZA and has 10 MPs from SYRIZA and PASOK

+386.116

+6.1%

+9

 

 

LAOS

(older split from ND, nationalist party)

183.466

2.9%

0

386.205

5.63

15

-202.739

-1,6%

-15

Democratic Alliance

(split from ND)

161.510

2.6%

0

It did not participate in 2009, It split from ND before the elections in 2012 with 4 MPs.

+161.510

+2.6%

-4

 




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A Vast Crowd of People Attended the Election Rally of the KKE in Athens

03.05.2012

Trust the KKE which they cannot subjugate

The GS of the CC of the KKE, Aleka Papariga, spoke at a large election rally in the centre of Athens on Wednesday, 2nd of May.



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Workers May Day in Greece

02.05.2012

May Day 2012 at “Greek Steelworks”, where the STRIKE has entered its 184th day. The All-workers Militant Front (PAME) decided to hold the central Athens strike rally there, in the heart of the working class and strike struggle. Thousands of workers once again expressed their solidarity with the striking steelworkers....


Solidarity with the imprisoned Palestinian militants

02.05.2012

The KKE expresses its unreserved solidarity with Ahmad Sa'adat, GS of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (whose health has deteriorated in recent days) as well as with all the Palestinian militants who are imprisoned in the Israeli prisons and have gone on a hunger strike demanding better conditions of detention ...


Joint Statement of Communist and Workers Parties for May Day 2012
27.04.2012
We demonstrate against capitalist exploitation and imperialist wars.
For the satisfaction of the contemporary needs of the Working class and people!
For the overthrow of the capitalist system.
For working class-people’s power, socialism-communism.

WORKERS MAY DAY
27.04.2012

WORKERS MAY DAY

“We can live better. The regression to the conditions of previous decades is not the realism of our epoch. 126 after May Day in Chicago, we do not deserve poverty, destitution, unemployment, all-day shifts just to make ends meet. We produce all the wealth and it belongs to us.”


Statement of the GS of the CC of the KKE, Aleka Papariga, on the French Presidential Elections
23.04.2012
The French elections, their results in the first round and what is being prepared for the second round are an important lesson and confirm the reasons why the KKE refuses to participate in the front of the so-called anti-memorandum forces and the so-called left forces...

With tenacity, optimism, militancy to decisively strengthen the KKE

Aleka Papariga, GS of the CC of the KKE, held a press conference 18/4 on the enormous social issue of unemployment, which now affects every Greek family, as unemployment according to official statistics has surpassed 21%, while amongst young people it is over 50%.

As A. Papariga stressed, in the election period the question of unemployment will be used by the other parties as a theatre piece, and they foster illusions that investments which support the profitability of capital will reduce unemployment and raise wages and pensions. The KKE has a unified proposal for struggle....

Early elections- 6th of May

Aleka Papariga: The people must take a giant step by voting for the KKE in every electoral ward.

12/4/2012

The Prime Minister L. Papademos declared early elections to be held on the 6th of May after his meeting the President of the Republic, K. Papoulias.


The 48hr Seamen’s strike
12.04.2012

The two day strike struggle of the seamen on the 10th and 11th of April was a success. PAME supported the struggle with all its forces.


The “left” government is dangerous for the people
10.04.2012

The KKE is continuing its preparations for the battle of the elections with visits in workplaces and rallies in workers’ neighborhoods. At the same time, it continues its activities for the relief of the workers’ families from the barbaric measures that affect all the working people.


The election activity of the KKE is in full swing
06.04.2012

The election activity of the KKE is intensifying, despite the fact that it is not yet clear whether the early elections will take place on the 29th of April or the 6th of May. The members and cadres of the KKE are stepping up their efforts so that the political proposal of the KKE reaches every worker.


The strike struggle does not stop!
05.04.2012

Despite the election campaign, which has begun in Greece for early elections, expected to be held most probably on the 6/5, the strike struggle of the workers, in which the All-workers Militant Front (PAME) plays the leading role, does not stop!


Striking Steelworkers-Unbowed, have entered the 6th month of their magnificent strike-International solidarity is a valuable support for them
04.04.2012

A large crowd of people took part in a rally-solidarity concert last Sunday and gave new impetus and militant strength to the striking steelworkers, who have been conducting their heroic strike for 157 days, almost 6 months of struggle. At this event PAME


NIKOS BELOGIANNIS: He will always live in our heart and consciousness
30.03.2012

It is reasonable that the impressive 93 year history of the KKE, a party which has remained unbowed for almost a century, which has been consistently and unwaveringly at the side of the people even if it had to pay for its stance with the lives and the blood of its members and cadre, provokes the interest of every well-intentioned person. From this standpoint the dissemination of the history of the KKE, especially in today’s difficult conditions which the country is experiencing contributes to the raising of genuine patriotism and proletarian internationalism.


Concerning the creation of concentration camps for immigrants
29.03.2012

The government of social-democrats (PASOK) and liberals (ND) will proceed with the creation of concentration camps for immigrants, utilising EU funding. These camps will function with the aim of deporting destitute people,


The character of the contemporary era as the basic element which defines the strategy of the Communist Parties and the experience of the KKE.
28.03.2012

Speech of Giorgos Marinos member of the PB of the CC of the KKE & MP to the International Seminar of CP of Brazil "The national question and the struggle for socialism today", Rio de Janeiro, 23 and 24 March 2012


A weak bourgeois government means a strong people
21.03.2012

The GS of the CC of the KKE spoke at a large rally of the party in Syntagma Sq., outside the Parliament, Tuesday the 20th of March, when the bourgeois parties inside the parliament approved the country’s new loan agreement, through which the coalition of government of social-democratic PASOK and liberal ND and the Troika seek to chain the people for the next 30 years.



Joint Statement KKE- PCPE
16.03.2012

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Party of the People’s of Spain (PCPE) have taken the initiative to make a joint statement in the face of the complex developments of the capitalist crisis and the savage offensi






A video of the magnificent strike struggle of the steel-workers


International Women’s Day: Significant Activity of the KKE and the class oriented movement
09.03.2012

The 8th March, the International Women’s Day was celebrated with a series of events and interventions of the KKE. The KKE organized two central political events on this issue with the GS of the CC of the KKE, comrade Aleka Papariga.



Letter of the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE in response to the letter of the President of the ELP and GS of the French CP, Pierre Laurent in the “Morning Star”
The “Crocodile tears” must stop!
07.03.2012

Dear comrades,
It is true that the development of the capitalist crisis in Greece which has been accompanied by an unprecedented assault on the rights of the working class and popular strata,



Contribution of KKE at the Conference of AKEL on the issue of nuclear weapons
06.03.2012

By Nikos Karathanasopoulos, MP of KKE

Dear comrades

We thank AKEL for the invitation to the conference, the goal of which is to elucidate a particularly important issue in our era: Our stance in relation to nuclear energy.



Joint Statement of the Communist and Workers Parties of the 5 countries with highest levels of unemployment in the EU
28.02.2012

“Organization and struggle for stable work with rights. Immediate measures for the unemployed. Struggle for a society without unemployment, exploitation, capitalists. The answer is socialism.”



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