Tens of thousands of people took part in the events of the 50th Festival of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) and its journal “Odigitis”, which once again took place all over Greece. The events culminated in Athens, in the “Tritsis” park, located in the working-class western districts of the Greek capital, with the slogan: “We are making history, we are changing the world.Our future is socialism”.
For 4 days, from 18 to 21 September, 400 artists presented an amazing cultural spectacle on 4 main stages.
Many discussions took place during the festival, such as the one on the way out of the capitalist system of exploitation, crises and wars, highlighting the political proposal of the KKE, i.e. socialism–communism.
43 delegations of communist and anti-imperialist youth organizations were hosted in the “International City”, where the thousands of visitors had the opportunity to meet and speak with them and three discussions were held. The first discussion was centred on the struggle against the imperialist war and Greece’s involvement in it, the second one on solidarity with the people of Palestine, where representatives of Palestinian organizations took the floor, and the third one on solidarity with Cuba, where, apart from the KKE, the Cuban ambassador, Aramis Fuente Hernández, and Suniel Sosa Cordero, representative of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba (UJC) took part.
On other stages of the festival, there were also discussions about the labour and trade union struggle in different countries, about women’s inequality through education and gender theories, about the timely character of the revolution, about artificial intelligence in art, about sport, etc., in which thousands of young visitors of the festival took part.
Thousands were the young communists who set up the festival, who worked voluntarily to provide food, cleaning and security for the festival, as has been the case for the past 50 years.
The political rally at the 50th Festival of KNE–Odigitis in Athens, with D. Koutsoumbas as speaker, was unparalleled.
The mass political rally at the 50th Festival of KNE–Odigitis began with a short video dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Festival, followed by the greeting of the Secretary of the CC of KNE,Thodoris Kotsandis.
“In this celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Festival, the older members of KNE from the 70s, 80s, and 90s are coming together with the younger generations of the 21st century” (...) “This is where hope springs up, this is where militant optimism flares up, this is where confidence grows that the working class will succeed, the peoples of the whole world will succeed, and they will emerge victorious!” stressed in his speech the GS of the CC of the KKE.
After the speech of Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the “Internationale” was played.
A large delegation from the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), led by its president Mike Makwayiba and its General Secretary Pambis Kiritsis, as well as Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union and Suzan Tayseer Salam, president of the Palestinian Trade Union federation of Jerusalem, attended the rally.
The rally was also attended by the delegations of the 43 Communist Youth Organizations participating in the events of the Festival, the Cuban ambassador, Aramis Fuente Hernández, and the Palestinian ambassador, Yussef Dorkhom.
The speech of the GS of the CC of the KKE can be found here
