Belgium, Workers' Party of Belgium [En.]

Parti du Travail de Belgique

Workers' Party of Belgium

Brussels, 29 March 2013

To the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)

To Comrade Aleka Papariga, Secretary General

Dear Comrades,

We congratulate the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on the occasion of its 19th Congress. We convey to the leadership and the entire membership of the KKE our best wishes for a successful Congress, that will guide the Party to further advances in its fight for the defense and the promotion of the rights and aspirations of the Greek working class and people, in the course of their struggle for socialism.

Over the years, we have come to know and appreciate the KKE as a steadfast and principled communist party, leading the Greek masses in the various and often complex battles they had to wage, for democracy, social progress, peace and socialism. For communists and workers in Belgium and elsewhere, it is reassuring to see that a party propagating a rupture with capitalism and with all imperialist forces and alliances, can advance and win over large masses of the people, in various fields of struggle.

This is all the more important in a period of a deep and systemic world capitalist crisis. In such conditions, not only are social contradictions and class struggle intensifying, but also reformist efforts to compromise and lead the working class astray from the path of genuine societal change.

Apart from the many immediate tasks in the ideological, political and organizational domains that will be discussed and decided by the 19th Congress of your party, it is of the utmost importance that the struggle for socialism and the vision of a socialist society are indeed well spelled-out, in order to give the working class a clear, positive and fundamental perspective.

Finally, we want to particularly mention the enormous efforts the KKE has undertaken for the regrouping and revolutionarizing of the international communist movement, while also maintaining a spirit and practice of concrete proletarian internationalism in bilateral and multilateral relations between communist and workers' parties.

With all these elements to its credit, we are confident that the 19th Congress will usher in a period of new successes and advances for the Communist Party of Greece.

With comradely greetings,

Peter Mertens

Chairman

Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB)