In a message to the Communist Party of Venezuela (3/6/2016), the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece mentions the following:

“To the Communist Party of Venezuela.

Central Committee, Caracas, Venezuela.

Dear comrades,

We express our internationalist solidarity with the working class and the popular strata of your country, who are facing the consequences of the capitalist economic crisis as well as the increasing aggressiveness of imperialism and the reactionary forces.

The KKE denounces every attempted interference in the domestic issues of Venezuela, such as the one which is manifesting itself within the framework of the Organisation of American States, as well as the military provocations by the US and their allies, the open targeting by the US, NATO and the EU, alliances in which our country participates and fulfils a negative role for the people.

The parties of capital which in Greece and in other countries seek to take advantage of Venezuela's problems are exposed. They are trying to cancel out from the peoples' memory that during the decades of the '60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, their sister parties were in government and condemned the working class, the popular strata of your country to extreme poverty, the natural resources became a source of immense profits for capital and the interventions of the US were a characteristic element of the developments.

This is the reality which provoked people's rage and led to the governmental change of 1998 with the election of president Chavez, cultivating to the people hopes for a change in the situation.

The developments in Venezuela vindicate the positions of the communists who argue that what is responsible for the crisis that Venezuela is experiencing is the capitalist mode of production.

In this case, in the case of Venezuela, there has been confirmation of the rule which is applicable to all countries and stresses that as long as power and the economy are in the hands of the monopolies, any social achievements of the people are not secured.

Capitalism cannot be dealt with by various minor improvements and reforms, but by the organization and intensification of the struggle for the protection of the working class and people’s interests, in confrontation with the bourgeois class and its power, with a total revolutionary overthrow in all sectors of society.

The KKE expresses its support for the struggle of the PCV (Partido Comunista de Venezuela), for the strengthening of the class struggle  so that the people will not pay the cost of the crisis, for the strengthening of the labour movement in the fight for the defense and expansion of the peoples' rights, for socialism.”

03.06.2016