Giorgos Marinos, member of the PB of the CC of the KKE, concluded the European Communist Meeting, noting among others that the discussion helped the participants to re-examine the key events of the struggle of the International Communist Movement, its contribution, but also its weaknesses and its mistakes, and to intensify their efforts for the Communist Movement to become more effective, taking into account the needs that arise every day in the class struggle in order to intervene in an organized way.
He emphasized that the Meeting categorically condemned anti-communism in all its forms and origins, noting that it is the core element of bourgeois ideology and policy, a tool of the monopolies against the working class and the popular strata to maintain the power of the capitalists; as well as condemning the anti-communist resolution of the European Parliament that was voted for by the political groups of the People’s Party, the Liberals and the Greens, the Conservative Reformists, who together with the Social Democrats, manage capitalist exploitation and delude the people with false slogans.
He also stressed the necessity of systematic revealing to the working class of how those forces and others have been trying all these years to undermine the values of the communists, specifically trying to strike at the necessity of the class struggle and socialist revolution.
He emphasized that the attack of capital, of the system and its parties does not take place only by means of blunt anti-communism, with the anti-communist measures that the comrades who participated in the Meeting are experiencing directly, such as in Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary and other countries, but that in all the capitalist countries socialism is being slandered, harsh anti-popular measures are being implemented, the right to strike is under attack, employer bullying is imposed, political and trade union action is being restricted, all facts that confirm that the system is barbaric and cannot be humanized.
He also referred to the importance of the interventions and elements cited in the Meeting, which challenge the anti-communist claims that seek to uproot historical truth. Elements of monopoly support for Nazism, US, British, French attempts to turn Nazi Germany towards the Soviet Union, how the Soviet Union resisted the fascist attack and nailed the red flag with the hammer and sickle in the heart of the fascist beast,how war arose- just like any imperialist war –within the bowels of capitalism, and the communists led the way and fought with the working class, the peoples, all events that history wrote and cannot be erased.