Resolution of the 16th Congress of KKE: The Party’s Tasks up to the 17th Congress
The
16th Congress of KKE was held from 14-12 to 17-12-
A. The 16th Congress approves the theses of
the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), having taken into account the discussion surrounding them and their
approval by the Party’s base organisations (BOs) and Conferences. It also
approves the report of the outgoing CC, as well as that of the Central Audit
Committee. On the basis of these documents, and having considered the comments
by Party members at pre-Congress assemblies and conferences, the Congress
drafted and approves a resolution about the nature and role of the
Anti-imperialist Anti-monopoly Democratic Front (AADF). It is also issuing the
Political Resolution that follows, in which the tasks that the Party must
undertake during the period up to the 17th Congress are set out and
specified.
The
16th Congress assesses that, based on the Resolutions and Programme
determined by the 15th Congress, as well as its 82 years of general
experience, the Party was ideologically and politically prepared to deal with
the head-on neo-liberal attack on the living standards and on the democratic
and trade union rights of the working class, the poor strata of the people in
towns and villages, the farmers and young people. It was ready and able to deal
correctly with the imperialist war in the Balkans from a position of principle.
The
Party made a significant effort to organise popular protest and struggle, to
foster common action and to rally forces together in an anti-imperialist,
anti-monopoly direction against capitalist downsizing and the serious problems
that have arisen owing to
The
Party’s action contributed to hindering the neo-liberal offensive, anti-popular
policy and class collaboration promoted by those who express monopoly policies
and submission to the EU and NATO. It helped develop positive processes and
differentiations that were manifested in the struggles, alliances and
cooperation around anti-imperialist, anti-monopoly goals and demands.
The
action of the Party is judged to have been positive on the whole. The CC, on
the basis of the 15th Congress Resolutions, oriented the Party
correctly in terms of its main task, i.e. the effort to gather forces and to
create the conditions necessary to build the AAD Front, to strengthen the Party
and KNE. It is important that the Party’s political proposal for the AADF, the
prospect of the people gaining power to create a people’s economy, and the
necessity of socialism were put before the people for discussion. Our proposal
for the Front has stirred the people and become a matter of concern to broader
popular forces. With the AADF as criterion and compass, the Party took
initiatives to rally forces around major, acute problems in fronts of struggle
and electoral confrontations. It met with broad forces, collaborated with them,
and promoted common action within the framework of PAME (Panhellenic Workers’
Militant Front) in struggles against the war in Yugoslavia, in support of the
farmers’ fight, the education movement, and the defence of democratic freedoms,
against repressive mechanisms, the state’s anti-democratic laws, reactionary
directions, agreements with the EU, and management terrorism in the workplace.
The Party kept open the front of protest against EU and NATO options. Through
its action, it contributed to revealing the true anti-popular reactionary
nature of the interstate regional capitalist organisation of the EU and current
developments in it. The Party’s Theses on developments in the Balkans and
action against the war, the handover of Ocalan, the Clinton visit, the new NATO
doctrine, the NATO headquarters and the multinational NATO military manoeuvres
helped broader forces to disengage themselves from the fatalistic and defeatist
mentality cultivated by the ruling class.
The
Party’s initiatives in terms of coordination and common action with other
communist parties, the rallying together of the anti-imperialist forces aiming
at coordinated international activities in labour struggles, the movement
against the new doctrine of NATO and other imperialist associations, and also
participation in the international activities and initiatives taken by other
parties, constitute positive items on its account and in its contribution to
internationalising the class struggle.
The
Party defended the ideals and values of the revolutionary movement, but it fell
behind in disseminating more broadly the contribution of socialism built in the
20th century and in further investigating the deeper reasons that
led to the victory of the counter-revolution.
The
increased authority and role of the Party was not accompanied by corresponding
outcomes in the growth and renewal of its ranks, in stronger action by the base
organisations in their own field, and in leadership work. Despite the progress
that has been hade, some basic problems remained during this period with regard
to the deeper assimilation of the Party’s policy, the linking of tactics and
strategy, political mass action, and the content of action among the working
class and young people. The appropriate adjustment was not made in either the
methods or content of our leadership or in our ideological and political action
in the mass movement, based on the strategy of concentrating and rallying
together the anti-imperialist anti-monopoly forces to form the Front. These problems
can and must be addressed during the period up to the 17th Congress,
since the Party has today acquired greater maturity and experience.
Current
political developments affirm the Party’s political line regarding the need for
a head-on confrontation and reversal of anti-popular policy. They confirm the
need to break with the imperialistic organisations of NATO and the EU and to
overthrow the monopolies’ regime.
The
other road of resistance, of opposition to this policy, the necessity of the
AAD Front and of socialism is becoming ever more indispensable. The class
struggle is growing, despite the difficulties and hurdles raised by the
bourgeois parties and reformism.
The
ruling class, the imperialist associations, those who express them politically and
their supporters are worried that opposition by the popular strata to their
policies could lead to mass dispute of their power. This is why organised
popular action and the class direction of the labour movement have become the
adversary’s targets, against which it uses all weapons, deterrent and
ideological, including mechanisms for manipulating people’s minds. The ruling
class takes into account the difficulties of the system and the opportunities
for providing the masses with an outlet, which is why it encourages movements
and formations which they intend to function as reserves to shore up the logic
of the ‘centre-left’ and ‘centre-right’ and to take advantage of their
activity. The class adversary, worried about the impact of KKE’s Theses and the
prospect of struggle, has stepped up its offensive. The adversary is focusing
its sights on anything that adds to the Party’s strength: its ideological and
political unity, its Marxist-Leninist theory, democratic centralism, its
Programme, its allies, and its proposal for the AAD Front.
PASOK
and ND, irrespective of their different features, serve and advance the
interests of monopolies and imperialist associations. The effort to weaken the
political and ideological influence of these parties among the people,
particularly among the working class and young people, is a significant
prerequisite for changing the correlation of forces and creating fronts of
struggle.
The
leadership of the Synaspismos officially rejects the AAD Front and reformulates
its old social-democratic positions that cover up the degree to which the
working people are exploited. It accepts the imperialist penetration in the
Balkans and supports the EU’s imperialist policy, which is a threat to the
people.
The
political proposal put forward by DIKKI after its Congress was held does not
comprise an alternative whose general direction sets it apart from the strategy
of the monopolies and imperialist associations, despite its criticism of their
policy. It does, however, make a positive contribution to rallying forces to
the trade union movement, to the struggle against NATO and the imperialist
interventions in the region, and for democratic liberties.
Our
Party, irrespective of differences, will continue its efforts toward common
action and its initiatives for collaboration in building the Front with
Communist Renewal and other forces, and with social and political public
figures with whom it has had constructive cooperation in the recent past. It
will continue to take initiatives for common action with the working people who
follow or are influenced by the other parties, on the basis of defending their
interests.
B. The main task stemming from the Party’s Programme, the resolutions of the 16th
Congress and the present needs is the all-round ideological, political and
organisational strengthening of KKE, and this is integrally linked with action
to build the AAD Front, and to develop the working class and the class
orientation of the labour movement.
The
Party should arrive at the 17th Congress having responded more
substantially to the tasks it has undertaken. It should be a more mass and
militant party with new forces among the working class and young people, better
rooted in the workplace and in the larger towns in the countryside, a party with
an increased ability to predict developments, and with vigilance so that, in
common with its allies, it can give a strong push to the revolutionary
upgrading of the struggle, to the radical raising of consciousness.
Strengthening
KKE will depend on the conscientious application of the line and decisions
adopted by the Congress, on the ability to make the dialectical connection
between tactics and strategy. It is a prerequisite for the working class to
play its leading role in promoting social alliances in order to build the AAD
Front.
A
major issue is for the CC, the regional, prefectural, and district committees
and the cadres to focus their attention on ensuring that the base organisations
(BOs), the Party’s core unit, and all party members take an active part in
carrying out the Party’s main political tasks. The methods and content of
leadership and internal Party life should be harmonised in this direction.
The
goal is that the Party as a whole, down to the base organisations, be capable
of following developments in the capitalist system internationally and in
Greece, so as to reveal, to rally forces, to promote alliances, and to develop
the class struggle by strengthening the people’s opposition to the monopolies
and imperialism, and their support for the AADF and socialism.
It
must step up the ideological front and its criticism of the parties that
promote agreement with and submission to the new imperialist world order and at
the same time it must rally popular forces. The ideological front against the
parties, machinery and organisations that promote reactionary theories and
social-democratic views must be reinforced. The front against opportunism and
anti-communism must be strengthened, irrespective of the quantitative and
qualitative power of their organisations.
In
order to raise the demands and to achieve immediately measurable results on
this main task, the following are REQUIRED:
a. To increase dedication to
the Party’s strategy and improve our ability to link tactics with strategy in
our daily action.
Discussing
the Party’s Theses, disseminating the Programme and the proposal for the AADF,
and propagating our theory and the necessity of socialism, particularly among
the most vanguard sections of the working class and youth, should take place on
a daily basis. It is important for us to be familiar with our programme and
strategy, and to be well aware of every problem and how pressing it is, to
understand the level of awareness and correlation of forces so that we can work
out goals, demands and slogans that will appeal to the popular strata, will
deepen the anti-monopoly consciousness and will be able to link tactics with
strategy. Up to the 17th Congress, a significant role will be played
by promoting, taking action and working out goals with the prospect of the
people’s economy, and associated with the power of the people. These goals
should constitute the primary issue to rally the working class together and
form an alliance with people who have small and medium-sized farm holdings and
businesses and the self-employed.
The
Party should show the working class the conflict between capital and labour in
all its manifestations. It should contrast the neo-liberal offensive and
capitalist downsizing with a comprehensive programme of goals and demands that
will express the contemporary increased needs of the working people, based on
the material possibilities that exist today, the accumulation of wealth and the
achievements of science and technology.
b. Under present conditions
there is a need to reinforce the existing forms of alliance and cooperation
that have been set up in the trade union movement, in the struggle for
democratic rights, in the movement against the new imperialist world order and
the new NATO doctrine. Initiatives should be taken and a systematic effort made
to create partial fronts of struggle around anti-imperialist anti-monopoly
goals and demands: fronts which join together broader forces that stand up to
the policy followed, facilitate the marshalling of forces, step up processes,
and foster the conditions necessary to form the AADF. These fronts can
constitute test fields for alliances; they can become torrents and streams
leading to the Front itself. In these fronts organised political forces and
movements can find expression, as can alliances and initiative groups that
agree on the specific issue of confrontation with the policy of the monopolies
and imperialism, without necessarily having adopted the generalised line of
contradiction and break. We attach significance to:
1. An alliance of forces in
the trade union movement against capitalist downsizing, starting out with PAME
(Panhellenic Workers’ Militant Front) in alliance with people who have small
and medium-sized farm holdings and businesses and other social movements of
young people and women. This alliance will fight for:
The
rights of the working class and other working people to social prosperity,
full, stable employment, social security, pensions and health care, according
to modern needs. Protection for all unemployed persons and their families, with
full social security and health coverage until a job is found. Shorter working
hours, aiming at the 7-hour day, the 5-day week, the 35-hour week, and the
30-hour week for heavy, dangerous or unhealthy trades, and higher earnings.
Struggle for democracy in the workplace, as well as for improved health and
safety conditions for the working people. The struggle of the working class
should be extended through alliances and common fronts to deal with the serious
problems and needs of the working class family. It should include the problems
of working women and young people, the need for leisure time, culture and the
struggle against the spread of narcotics. It should also include the struggle
for education, training and research that will serve the masses of the people
within the framework of an organised people’s economy, that will help young
people, the workers of tomorrow, to develop a rounded personality and to serve
the planned growth of the economy for the benefit of the people. Struggle for
equal rights for foreign national workers and their families. Confronting
nationalism, racism and religious fanaticism by promoting the values of
solidarity and internationalism, and by developing action against the new world
order and NATO.
The
working class should become a vanguard force in the struggle to protect the
environment, the cities, the countryside and the forests from floods and fires,
and from the danger of a water shortage. These are issues directly related to
the struggle against the monopolies, the effects of which are felt first by the
working class and other popular strata.
The
adverse situation that prevails in the labour movement must be addressed
immediately. The confrontation with the prevailing reformist viewpoints and
practices, class collaboration and the neo-liberal consent that predominates in
the leading bodies GSEE (General Confederation of Greek Workers) and ADEDY
(confederation of civil servants’ unions) and other organisations must be
stepped up.
The
class forces must be strengthened and PAME upgraded as a rallying point for
common action and for coordinating the class forces and organising their
struggle. PAME plays a special part in developing the class struggle and in the
labour counter-offensive for the creation of the Front.
Young
people, women and foreign nationals must be drawn to the trade unions;
movements of unemployed, foreign national and persecuted persons must be
supported. New forms of organising the working people must be explored on the
basis of changes in labour relations and occupations. Committees of struggle,
coordinating committees, and committees in places of residence should be
supported, together with other strata of the people. The struggle to upgrade
the function and activities of the trade unions must be supported and the
balance of power changed in favour of the class forces.
The
CC should hold a nationwide conference to draft the Party’s plan of action
among the working class, to regenerate a strong trade union movement and to
strengthen the class forces.
2. An alliance of forces,
struggle against the choices and decisions of the EU and the new NATO doctrine,
which are against the interests of the peoples of Greece, of Europe and of the
entire world, which increase the profits of big capital, plunder the peoples’
wealth, undermine democratic rights, countries’ sovereign rights, and the right
of every people to decide on its own present and future. Against imperialist
interventions, multinational NATO forces and the ‘Euroarmy’, against
‘mercenaries’ and the transformation of the Greek Armed Forces into
mercenaries. For military bases and nuclear weapons to be removed from
3. To support the Front in
defence of democratic freedoms and the right to strike, in opposition to the
policy of despotism, repression, and the anti-democratic laws and agreements of
the EU and of NATO.
4. To mobilise forces among
creators and artists, against the phenomena of corruption, degradation,
nationalism, racism, cosmopolitanism, defeatism and fatalism, so that the
intellectual and cultural atmosphere in our country can begin to change and the
people’s self-confidence in their own power is cultivated.
5. To fight for the rights of
farmers with small and medium-sized holdings, together with workers on the
land. The struggle for profound changes in the agrarian economy in favour of
farmers with small and medium-sized holdings entails the operating
reorganisation of the agrarian movement, rallying around anti-monopoly goals
and demands, and disengagement from the mentality of adjusting to the
directives of the EU, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and imperialist
agreements within the framework of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
An
alliance should be promoted of the consistent forces among farmers in a united
nationwide movement within the framework of planned positions and goals that
will demonstrate the role and rights of farmers with small and medium-sized
holdings, of the agrarian household and of the production cooperative.
6. To fight to solve the
problems and needs of the petty bourgeois strata arising from the concentration
of capital and production; to demand anti-monopoly measures and to foster
productive cooperatives among small enterprises within the context of the
people’s economy.
7. Regarding regional
development and local government (LG): we must struggle against the
anti-popular choices implemented by local government agencies. Right after the
Congress, the Central Committee should examine the situation in local
government and work out the details of issues in our Theses regarding the
institution of LG and our tactics in municipal and prefectural elections. Our Theses
should be studied in greater depth from the viewpoint of the people’s economy.
8. The 2004 Olympic Games
intensify the penetration of monopoly capital. They constitute one of the
Party’s fields of action to strengthen the popular alliance around the
essential problems of the working people, against the commercialisation of
sport and further destruction of the environment. The CC should work out a
specific plan of political and ideological intervention and action.
C. OUR LEADERSHIP ABILITY SHOULD RISE TO MEET THE
DEMANDS
The
Congress estimates that we should focus our attention on certain serious issues
that must be addressed so that we can improve our work:
1. We must increase the
participation of all Party members in shaping decisions and in action, so as to
combat organisational flabbiness and laxity. There must be a strengthening of
personal responsibility for the progress of the Party’s tasks. The CC and the
city, prefectural and district committees are responsible for working out plans
of action, for helping the BOs to develop initiatives so that they in turn can
enhance their role in the rise of the labour movement, the popular movement
more generally, and the alliances for building the Front. We must combat the
spirit of routine, generalisation and fragmentation, the dry discussion of
tasks, the shifting of blame from top to bottom and vice versa. Meetings of the
Party bodies and the general assemblies of the BOs should become places for
militant discussions, with priorities set for targets, means, methods of
gathering forces and organising the ideological front. One criterion for the
work of the BOs and Party members is how they contribute militantly to
organising the popular masses, disseminating communist ideas and enhancing our
ability to work with broader forces that may have some disagreements with us.
We must contribute to developing initiatives among the people, so that the
followers and friends of the Party are substantially informed and utilised. The
appropriate forms of communication should be used with our associates, so that
their opinion can be sought promptly and common action can be planned.
2. Creative political
briefing and the Party’s views on political developments, and international
issues must be provided especially to the BOs and the intermediate leading
bodies. There should be prompt information and the mobilisation of forces. The
rapid informing of the BOs and the degree of Party members’ participation in
their internal life will depend on the quality of the work done by the CC and
the city and prefectural committees. Meetings of cadres and members with CC
sections and Party bodies should be utilised to exchange experience, to address
issues, and to specialise using the appropriate methods of work and leadership
on each occasion. Discussion should be developed woth political and ideological
arguments demonstrating the reasoning of our aims. The transfer, utilisation
and understanding of experience to the BOs give vitality to intra-party life. A
significant task for the leading bodies is to utilise and generalise
experience. To upgrade the Party’s leadership in the labour and trade union
movement is an indispensable and necessary goal. Right after the Congress, the
ranking of the party forces will be completed; this is associated with the
development of broader action among the working class, the building of social
alliances, the building of the Front and the increase of the Party’s forces and
political influence.
3. It is the responsibility
of the Party bodies to ensure that the strategy of our alliances is understood
down to the base organisation level and advanced in practice through alliances
and fronts of struggle. Reservations and confusion about the necessity of the
alliance between the working class and petty bourgeois strata must be overcome.
We must all acquire the ability to make the confrontation with the monopolies
bring new forces together.
4. Constant attention to
building the Party’s finances in conjunction with improving political work and
building links with popular forces.
5. To study and disseminate Rizospastis and increase its circulation
constitute permanent tasks for the BOs and for leadership work. Utilisation of
the Party newspaper by the BOs will give new thrust to making Rizospastis a more militant expression
of the interests of the working class.
6. The radio station and
television channel ‘902’, taking into account the tough conditions of
ideological conflict and competition, should utilise a wider range of
journalists, associates, and forces from youth and other movements, as well as
artists who are opposed to decadence, corruption and fatalism.
The
new CC and the intermediate leading bodies should systematically organise the
monitoring and orientation of the organisations with respect to this task.
Recruitment
will constitute the main issue for discussion in the bodies, the BOs and Party
groups. If the BOs keep constant track of the progress of our building targets
of developing independent Party political work among the working class, the
situation will change.
The
new CC must hold a nationwide organisational meeting, by the middle of the
period leading to the 17th Congress at the latest, in order to check
the degree to which the resolutions and directions are being carried out to
improve leadership work, to foster the Party’s growth and to revitalise the
action of the BOs.
8. An issue of critical
importance up to the 17th Congress is the cadres policy. Every
leading body from the CC to the prefectural committees should have a plan for
its cadre needs. The effort should be focused on the mass promotion of cadres
from the working class, the training of cadres from KNE, and women, as well as
the promotion of cadres for ideological work and propaganda. The experience of
cadres needs to be broadened with planned renewal and the alternation of tasks,
in a constant effort to achieve a higher level of ideological and political
training, collectivity and the seeking of opinions from comrades who perform
leadership and collaboration duties. Cadres require specialisation and overall
development at the same time. This will be achieved if all the Party forces
become involved in the political promotion of cadres and in the critical
examination and checking of their work, on the basis of general, uniform
criteria without deviation. The response to the heroic traditions of communists
in
9. It is necessary to
strengthen the Party’s assistance to KNE, taking into account the needs created
by the latter’s rapid growth, so that it is strengthened comprehensively, to
make its membership stronger and larger in number, so that it can deal with the
complex problems of concern to the young generation. Without replacing the
responsibility of KNE for the youth movement, we must contribute more
concretely in the period to come to make its problems and modern needs a
concern of the labour and popular movement more broadly, thus giving thrust and
prospects to its struggles, and reinforcing our common progress toward building
the Front.
We
must transmit the Party’s long experience to KNE members.
Young
people must learn about the Party’s ideals, values, theory, programme and
history. Work must be stepped up among youth regarding the necessity of
socialism.
Young
people must be utilised in the trade unions, in our alliances with mass
organisations, in PAME and in the anti-imperialist peace movement.
Special
initiatives should be developed in order to strengthen the Party’s links with
young people on issues such as the right to a job, education, culture, and
sports, and the struggle against all narcotics, in order to develop a strong
youth movement that can take part in the Front.
The
Party bodies need special study of the ways in which they can offer political
and ideological leadership and help to KNE, utilising comrades and people from
a broader spectrum, who can contribute to our work.
10. Ideological work takes on
greater significance, because it is a component in upgrading our action and our
leadership work in the struggle against other political forces, capitalist
management and the complex and many-tentacled machinery of the system.
Attendance at courses, the utilisation of Rizospastis
and COMEP (Communist Review),
self-education by cadres and study all constitute permanent Party tasks and a
component in the militancy and effectiveness of our work. The Party should
provide more support for the activities of the Centre for Marxist Research
(KME), in order to foster the development of scientific research and to
disseminate Marxist-Leninist theory. The on-going effort to raise the
ideological level, the understanding of Marxism-Leninism, and the knowledge of KKE
programme are integrally linked with our operating principles and democratic
centralism. Militant support for our theory and our programme is of particular
value today as are the implementation of decisions and the upholding of the
statutes. With these principles, revolutionary vigilance will increase, and
class adversaries and anti-communism will be dealt with.
11. Under present conditions,
it is necessary for the Party to publicise the contribution of socialism that
was built in the 20th century in a planned, systematic and militant
way, and to explain the causes of its reversal and the victory of the
counter-revolution. The new CC, to the extent that this is dependent on our
Party, utilising the experience of other parties, as well as the new data that
have come to light, must continue the further study of the causes of this
reversal and the temporary victory of the counter-revolution.
The
Party will study in greater depth issues relative to countries trying to build
socialism, the difficulties and influence of imperialist aggression.
12. An important role in the
liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalist exploitation, but
more generally among the popular strata and the youth, is played by generalised
experience, understanding of the progress of the revolutionary movement and its
choices in each period within the prevailing historic conditions, as well as
the history of the Party. Defending and publicising the history of the
revolutionary movement and the Party are components of the revolutionary
struggle. Keeping in mind this need and the opinions expressed during the
pre-Congress discussion and after the 16th Congress, the CC should
prepare to publish the second part of the Party’s History.
D. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT AND THE MODERN
REVOLUTIONARY AND ANTI-IMPERIALIST MOVEMENT
KKE
will continue its effort, in common with other communist parties that have
similar concerns, to address problems of common action so that the pole of the
communist movement becomes more discernible worldwide. Over the next few years,
it will continue its efforts to create a distinct and better form of
coordination and collaboration on an international and regional level than what
has been gained through the initiatives of communist and workers’ parties up to
the present.
The
Party will continue its efforts in the international revolutionary movement to
strengthen the ideological counter-attack by the CPs and the communist
movement, which believes in the necessity of overthrowing capitalism, the
necessity of socialism, the contribution of socialism that was built in the 20th
century, and the role of the anti-imperialist movement in the revolutionary
process.
It
will continue the effort to help develop strong dialogue and discussion of the
various viewpoints and orientations that exist in the worldwide movement.
Within its ranks there is a strong ideological conflict between opportunistic,
reformist and revolutionary communist forces. Today the need has arisen to
stress the significance of political and ideological unity in the communist
movement on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and to reinforce proletarian
internationalism. Not only were the theories of euro-communism and the
so-called democratic road to socialism not vindicated, they also proved to be
damaging to the peoples.
It
will continue taking initiatives and participating on an international and
regional level in initiatives that foster coordination and common action with
other communist parties, revolutionary forces and anti-imperialist movements,
against imperialistic organisations, NATO and imperialist interventions.
We
will assist the development of initiatives to coordinate the worldwide labour
and anti-imperialist movement against imperialist organisations and the new
world order. What is important today is for the radical forces fighting in the
trade union movement and the anti-imperialist movement more generally to meet,
coordinate their actions and join together to strengthen the international pole
of forces that can and want to stand up to imperialism.
Solidarity
with the peoples of countries that are trying to build socialism, and with
peoples who are resisting imperialist barbarity and imperialist intervention is
of particular importance in
We
are a Party with a rich and glorious history, identified with the continuing
effort to overthrow capitalism and build socialism. Our history proves that
whenever the working class and the people adopt the revolutionary slogans of KKE,
they have had gains and have achieved great things. This is why we are
convinced, on the basis of our history, that today too a strong KKE gives power
and prospects to the struggle for the AAD Front and for Socialism.
December
2000
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