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Anniversary event for the Liberation of Athens and the founding of EAM

The working class and the people’s alliance are the driving forces of the counterattack

Thousands of people of all ages on Monday 14/10  honoured the anniversary of the liberation of Athens and the 72 years since the foundation of the National Liberation Front, EAM, which the KKE took the initiative and formed in order to organize the resistance in Greece against Nazism. The rally was organized by the CC of the KKE and the National Union of Militants of the National Resistance and the Democratic Army of Greece (PEAEA-DSE) in the centre of Athens.

The President of PEAEA-DSE, C. Tsintzilonis, addressed a greeting’s message to the rally, while the central speech was delivered by the GS of the CC of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumpas, who stressed amongst other things:

“On behalf of the CC of the KKE, we salute the heroic generation of our immortal National Resistance, EAM-ELAS, EPON, DSE, the militants who did not bend in the stone years of Nazism-Fascism, imperialist war (…) The KKE is the only party in Greek society that studies its history. We study it to learn collectively as a party, so that we can leave a good legacy to the young generation, to the next generations. The KKE studies its history from the standpoint of its strategy and strategic choices which led it to take various positive or negative decisions, in the period examined. (…) We are convinced, through our study of history, that in the conditions of monopoly capitalism there is no intermediate social system between capitalism and socialism, there is no intermediate stage of strategic choice. That a crucial issue, when there are other preconditions, like the existence of a revolutionary situation, is for the party to have a correctly elaborated strategy, to lead the working class and its allies to victory.

History also teaches us of the irreplaceable role of the Communist Party, the need for it to operate with its principles and functioning under any conditions, in legality or illegality, with independence, with its party organizations fully functional, that it does not dissolve itself inside other formations.

History teaches us the necessity of the continuous unceasing consistent ideological and political struggle against the bourgeois parties and their vehicles inside the labour movement, against the reformist and opportunist forces. We have been deeply taught and convinced that the struggle against opportunism must be continuous, as it is a current which is born and reborn by the very existence of bourgeois relations in capitalism and the remnants of these relations in socialism, in conditions of a negative correlation of forces”.

“Our people must not make any sacrifices for the plutocracy. The only sacrifices which are appropriate for our people are the sacrifices in the struggle for the realization of working class people’s power, the only power which will end the downward spiral, the exploitation, the class injustice, the enslavement of the working class and the other popular strata-allies to the exploiters of capital, the monopolies and will finally eradicate crises.

Various political forces in recent years that talk about a “new occupation”, about “dependency” due to the German jackboot or the Americans etc have entered   this game of concealment and disorientation, in this way exonerating the Greek partners and collaborators of these powers, the Greek bourgeois class, sections of capital whose profitability and future are interwoven with same monopoly groups that are served either by the political line of Merkel or Hollande, or by the political line of Obama and the rest of them. They are poisoning the minds and the consciousness of our people, they do not allow them to clarify where they should direct their struggle and to see the causes of the phenomena.  The view that they are promoting and fomenting inside the people in essence exonerates all the parties of the bourgeois class, the new two pole system, underplays the responsibilities of the system, the class which as a whole governs our country, conceals the real competition and the infighting of the imperialists over their interests, conceals the character of the crisis.

The KKE did not fall and will never fall into the political trap of incriminating only some ministers or MPs or the 300 MPs of the Parliament all together or only the “Right”, and to call for an alleged “democratic front” of an anti-people management of he problems, with a change only of the identities of the managers of the same reactionary policies, i.e. a political line in the final analysis adds grist to the mill of the Nazi Golden Dawn, to the policies for the movement to be led by far-right and adventurist elements, by criminal gangs of marginal Nazis and fascists of every kind.”

In conclusion, the GS of the CC of the KKE, stressed that: “A final complete smashing of fascism-Nazism, regardless of the political party forms it takes, the phase of its growth or reduction, will take place with the eradication of the very womb that gives birth to it, i.e. capitalism. For this reason the struggle of the workers, the youth, to isolate Golden Dawn in every school, in every neighbourhood, must at the same time strengthen the struggle to destroy the womb that gives birth to it.”

The rally ended with a musical concert.