The message of the 8th March echoed throughout the country during the mass rallies held by PAME and the Greek Federation of Women (OGE) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary since the establishment of the International Women‘s Day. Thousands of people participated in the rallies and showed their determination to fight against the “black block” of the government, the EU, the capital, the parties that support the EU and the compromised leaderships in the trade union movement. In spite of the heavy rain, working women from factories, offices and stores, teachers, students and mothers marched with their children and husbands and demanded permanent and stable employment with social security rights, their right to maternity, free education and healthcare system. The rally was also saluted by the Women International Democratic Federation that sent a message of support announced at the opening of the demonstration.
Information note of the International Section of the CC of KKE on the role of ITUC and ETUC
To: Communist and Workers' Parties
The big capital and its governments throughout Europe launch a new offensive while the capitalist economic crisis is under way. Drastic reduction of wages, new taxes, reduction in pensions, further dismantling of the Social Security systems and attack on the working relations are at the forefront of this offensive. These measures are promoted under the pretext of the crisis and they are not temporary; they are permanent and they have been decided years ago on the basis of the EU-treaties, the first being the Treaty of Maastricht, and the Lisbon Strategy.
This is a video produced by KNE about the demonstrations in Greece against the new offensive by the government of PASOK along with the EU, the capital and the parties that support the EU.
This video constitutes a response to the orchestrated effort of the bourgeois media and the international agencies to bury the mass participation in the demonstrations of PAME as well as their dynamics either by broadcasting the contrived incidents or the scant demonstrations of the compromised leaderships of GSEE and ADEDY. The scenes are from the last strike of PAME on March 5, 2010.
Info about the strike on Friday, March 5
Both the mass demonstrations organised by the class-oriented forces on Thursday afternoon in 62 cities as well the 24-hour strike organised by PAME on Friday March 5 were held with great success.
The immediate mobilisation of the class oriented forces has been a strong response to the announcement of the new reactionary measures that impose severe cuts and launch a sweeping attack on the people’s income.
The severe permanent anti-people measures must not pass!
Demonstrations, sit- ins and general strike on Friday, March 5th
Yesterday the Greek government announced the most severe package of measures over the last decades. In this way it confirmed that the attack that the social democrat government of PASOK is launching against the vast majority of the...
"The struggle for the emancipation of the woman is the struggle for the emancipation of the whole working class"
On 1st March the Party Organisations of KKE in Attica held an event on the 100th anniversary since the establishment on the International Women’s Day and the contribution of KKE to the struggle for the emancipation of women. The Event opened with Cangyl Ornek,member of the Party Council of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) who extended a brief greeting.
24-hour general strike in Greece: Mass rallies of PAME in 70 cities throughout Greece Plutocracy must pay for the crisis!
The new 24-hour strike held on February 24th against the plans of the social-democrat government of PASOK to place the burdens of the capitalist crisis on the shoulders of the workers was a great success. Millions of workers resisted to the intimidation by the capital’s parties (the social democrat PASOK, the conservative ND, and the extreme-right, racist LAOS) which argue that workers must submit in order to “rescue the country from bankruptcy”.
The EU Summit of Heads of States of February 11 signals a new severe attack against the working class and the peoples of Europe. The resolutions of the Summit, in accordance with the “EU 2020 Strategy” which promotes and deepens the Lisbon Strategy, intensify the anti-people policy of the European Union and the bourgeois governments by means of hard measures against the working class and the people. They seek to reinforce the profitability of the European monopolies both within the European Union and in the international imperialist competition.
The Communist Party of Greece -KKE organized today (19-2-2010) a protest rally against a NATO conference on the New Strategic Concept which is held in Thessaloniki (is the 2nd biggest city of Greece.
Hundreds of people (see the attached photos) “invaded” in the conference’s place and expressed the Greek people’s opposition to the NATO plans that turn against the interests of the peoples in all over the world.
Tens of thousands of workers and employees both in the private and public sector responded to the strike call of All Workers’ Militant Front (PAME), a front of class trade unions in Greece. PAME staged mass rallies in 66 cities throughout the country while 300 primary and secondary trade unions (Trade Unions, Trade Union Centres, Industrial Federations) in the public and private sector decided to participate in the strike.
The success of the strike was another response to the anti-people measures announced by the social-democrat government of PASOK such as wage and pension reduction, increase of retirement age.