General Secretary of the CC of the KKE, Cde. Koutsoumpas,
Leadership of the KKE,
Leadership of the KNE,
My dear Comarades and Friends,

It is wonderful to be here sharing the revolutionary spirit, energy and optimism that is so clearly abundant here.

My revolutionary salutes to all of you on behalf of over a hundred thousand members of the CPIM and nearly forty million comrades working in various mass organisations led by the CPIM.

Struggle,knowledge , daring, endurance , is the theme you have chosen for this festival. Indeed, all advances of human civilisation have only been through class struggles. These struggles can never succeed without scientific knowledge, daring and endurance. This is the essence of Marxism - 'concrete analysis of concrete conditions ' - to change our present day world into a world without exploitation of man by man and nation by nation - a better world, Socialism.

Youth are the inheritors of the future. You must shape your future. You are the future of this better world.

Unlike time, history does not always move forward in a linear manner. Depending upon the relative strengths in the correlation of class forces and class struggles at a point in time, the exploiting classes can temporarily retard the advance of human civilisation. We are living in one such period where the counter revolutionary forces have bared a naked aggression. Imperialist wars, predatory profit maximisation through neo- liberal economic reforms, unequal treaties and attacks on human rights established by earlier class struggles are driving the vast majority of people, globally, into poverty and misery. Imperialism is seeking to turn the clock of history back. Peoples all over the world are in the midst of struggles against this. We from India assure you that we waging these struggles in a determined manner.

Capitalist ideologues project that this is the ' end of ideology, end of history '. To them, in India, we say Marxism is a scientific truth. When a child is born from the mother's womb, the child could suffer from many deformities but under no circumstance can this child return back into the comfort of the mother's womb. Likewise in human history. Once Socialism was born rupturing Capitalism's womb, whatever may be the weaknesses today, human history cannot go back into Capitalism's womb. Human history has to be moved forward by intensifying class struggles.

This determination to carry forward class struggles more vigorously is in evidence here today. When our class enemies ask ' what is the future of Socialism?' Our answer must be ' Socialism is the future '.

I join you today along with all our class bothers and sisters to re dedicate our resolve to strengthen our struggles to achieve our future - Socialism.

My revolutionary red salute to all of you here and those in the midst of intense class struggles all across the globe.