The release of Kasidiaris, which follows the release of almost the entire leadership of the criminal organisation of Golden Dawn, is a provocation against its victims, their families, as well as the working people who demanded and fought for its conviction.
However, the crocodile tears of the parties of the system, who claim to be concerned and anxious about this development, are equally provocative. Both the Mitsotakis and previous Tsipras governments are responsible for the significant delays to the trial, which concluded after 11 years, yet without a final verdict. This could allow the criminal Kasidiaris to stand as a candidate in the next elections. After all, even the legislative framework drawn up by the New Democracy government allegedly to prevent this possibility is based on the idea of “the two extremes” and the criminalisation of radicalism. This framework is actually supported by the other parties too, since it ends up targeting the workers’ and people’s movement.
All the bourgeois parties deliberately conceal the fact that fascism is the “offspring” of this decayed, exploitative system; that the resurgence of fascism today is no accident, since its nationalist and racist poison is indispensable, in times of war preparation and military involvement, for creating false dilemmas and trapping the people under false flags, rallying them behind the interests of the ruling class.
They present the strengthening of the “rule of law” as a response to the rise of fascism, when it is obvious that the state and the judiciary tolerated Golden Dawn's actions and sat alongside them in the parliamentary benches until the murder of Pavlos Fyssas. Moreover, Golden Dawn secured lighter sentences under the new Penal Codes introduced by the SYRIZA government at the time. The vast majority of its members also enjoyed an immediate release, favourable treatment involving repeated furloughs and, as in the case of Kasidiaris, the option of serving only half of the sentence. He was also continually provided with jobs, which are hard to come by for other prisoners, in the overcrowded prisons.
Both the government and the parties of the convenient opposition defend the EU’s “rule of law”, which, spearheaded by the unacceptable theory of “the two extremes”, on the one hand rehabilitates Nazi collaborators and on the other tears down communist symbols, and bans communist parties and youth organisations. It is this very same EU that unleashes a new “witch-hunt” through mass and preventive surveillance, and through the criminalization and suppression of radical thought and action.
It is becoming increasingly evident that fascism cannot be addressed by the system’s so-called progressive governments, through laws and court rulings, nor by defending a “rule of law” that hatches the serpent’s egg whenever necessary. Moreover, the rise of far-right populism in Germany and other countries confirms that it is the bourgeois state and the anti-popular bourgeois forces that pave the way for these forces, allowing a genuine “offspring” of this system to take on an “anti-establishment” mantle.
Only the workers’ and people’s movement, through its organized struggle and with its contemporary needs as its banner, can pave the way for the overthrow of this system, so that we may be rid once and for all of the decay it breeds; pave the way for the overthrow of this system in favour of socialism and communism, which have proven in practice that they can crush the monster of fascism, by raising the red flag with the hammer and sickle in Berlin, at the heart of Reichstag.
ATHENS 15 September 2026
THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE KKE