Ireland, Workers' Party of Ireland [En.]
Workers'
Party of Ireland
Tel: ++353-1-8733916
To: The
Central Committee,
Communist
Party of Greece
05
April 2013
Dear
Comrades,
The
Central Executive Committee of the Workers’ Party of Ireland sends warm
comradely greetings to the Communist Party of Greece on the occasion of your 19th Congress.
The KKE
has a long and honourable history of struggle for the
emancipation of the Greek working class. It has made many sacrifices and
endured many hardships and continues to lead the opposition to the anti-people
measures being implemented against the people of Greece and it remains to the
forefront of the struggle for democratic rights, the overthrow of capitalism
and the construction of socialism-communism.
This is
an important Congress taking place at a time of sharpening class conflict
and the escalation of tensions by imperialism particularly in the regions of
the Middle East and the Korean peninsula. The ramping up of plans for
direct military intervention in Syria and the promulgation of myths designed to conceal
the nature and programme of a coalition of
ultra-reactionary and obscurantist religious forces; anti-democratic, tyrannical
and despotic states in the region; Israel and the imperialist powers, are
preparatory steps towards intervention and occupation with a view to destabilising and neutralising
Syria, altering the balance of power in the area and securing unlimited access
by the monopolies to the valuable natural resources of the region.
At
times of crisis in the capitalist system, the working class has a vested
interest in destroying the old economic order creating the conditions for the
development of a new mode of production and advancing society to a new and
higher stage. Ultimately, in these conditions, the working class can only
emancipate itself by abolishing capitalist relations of production and
constructing a socialist society. Socialism – the assumption of political,
social and economic power by the working class – is the only means to establish
real freedom and genuine equality.
The
unceasing role of the KKE in supporting Cuba and the socialist countries, its
consistent anti-imperialist stance, the facilitation of the work of the
international Communist and Workers’ Parties, the assistance and solidarity
rendered to fraternal parties, including our own party in Ireland, are a
testament to the dedicated socialist internationalism of the Communist Party of
Greece.
Your
consistent defence of the principles of
Marxism-Leninism and the unequivocal rejection of revisionism and opportunism
has provided an inspiration to fraternal parties struggling for the overthrow
of capitalism and the taking of power by the working class.
The
Central Executive Committee of the Workers’ Party of Ireland salutes the KKE
and sends its best wishes to the participants in the Congress and to the
leadership and militants of the KKE. We have no doubt that your deliberations
will strengthen the work and revolutionary programme
of the KKE. We wish you continued success and look forward to further
strengthening the already close relations between our two parties.
Long
live the Communist Party of Greece
Socialism
is the alternative
Gerry
Grainger
International
Secretary
On
behalf of the Central Executive Committee
Workers' Party of Ireland
e-mail:cpg@int.kke.gr