About the recent developments and the manifestations concerning the murder of the 15 year old boy
The CC of KKE held a session on Tuesday, 9th December and discussed the political situation in the country, on the basis of the developments of the last days and of the mass struggle of workers and the youth, who protested the murder of the 15 year old pupil and manifested their indignation concerning the intensified people’s problems.
The CC of KKE arrived at the following observations and conclusions:
1. The CC of KKE salutes the youth, the pupils, the students and the workers, who since the first moment and up today have reacted with mass demonstrations to the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. They disclosed the long standing political causes that armed the hand of the murderer, but also the concrete responsibilities of ND. The mobilisations had also as background the acute people’s problems, the authoritarianism, and the state repression, the indignation of the youth, their agony and uncertainty concerning their future. The CC of KKE calls for a militant continuation and strengthening of the popular and youth struggles that took place during the last months and which should be escalated, so as the new attack stemming from the economic crisis and the growing state authoritarianism to be fought back. KKE underlines that: There must be no deferment of the popular action and mobilisation, of the organisation and high safeguarding of the struggles, of the development of advanced forms of struggle through collective processes. The above require popular participation and a spirit of militant responsibility. Popular struggles should embrace all the spectre of the dominant policy, from the escalation of state repression and violence to the economic and social demands of the working class, the petty and middle strata of the cities and the countryside, the youth and women, against the extensive assault on their rights. Workers should immediately take the situation in their hands. The workplaces, the factories, the industrial branches, the construction sites, the large department stores of the cities, the places of education and neighbourhoods should become vital kernels for the revitalisation and development of the labour and popular movement in general.
2. The murder in cold blood of the 15 year old pupil Alexandros Grigoropoulos on Saturday night, on 6th December, by special guards of the state repression forces, is a “chronicle of a death foretold” caused by the state violence and repression. It is the result of a policy that regards as an enemy the people and youth who struggle, demand and call to question the power of domestic plutocracy and its parties. This policy opposes all militant forms of struggle, strikes, demonstrations, building occupations. It is against all organised and politically advanced forms of struggle. This policy is an enemy of the collective organisation and action of workers, peasants, petty and middle strata of the city, of the youth. The murder of the pupil is a continuation of police violence and arbitrariness, which has grown during the last years. It is directed against workers at workplaces, where constant extortion and intimidation takes place, against immigrants, who are victims of exploitation and wars, against students, pupils that are being prosecuted for demanding public Education for free. The core of the system itself causes the victims of the employers’ lawlessness and indifference that leads to the death of workers.
3. The governments of the country up to now, those of ND and PASOK, have grave responsibilities. They have promoted and applied laws, which they have passed in the Parliament. The anti-terror laws of the EU, the Prum Convention (Shengehn III), the legislation on the use of weapons by policemen allows for an excess use. There is a widening of the power of secret services, a creation of surveillance systems and a gradual interference of Armed Forces in issues of internal order. A new mechanism, complimentary to Greek Police, at the level of Local Authorities has been created. The use of police dogs by the Greek Police is spread in public and during demonstrations. There is a spread of weapon holding by private security companies’ guards and more.
4. The bourgeois state, the government of ND are trying to use the blind violence by masked and hooded persons, that we witness mainly through TV, in order to check the increasing wave of protests and the struggles of the people. The measures for the protection of the struggles are an issue of the organised popular movement and not of the police and state repression forces. The people can protect their struggles as well as their mass movement with the contribution of KKE and the class oriented forces. They can also confront the repressive state as well as the masked and hooded persons that constitute an ally and assistant of the forces that intend to cause fear to the people and make them quit struggling. The core of such groups has been formed in pockets within the state, inside and beyond the borders of Greece, both during ND and PASOK governments. Furthermore, their inspirers might lose control over them at some point.
5. Those who grant indulgences to the blind violence of masked and hooded persons, trying to equate it to the spontaneous actions of indignant school students, bear particular responsibility. In addition, those who “caress the ears” of the hooded persons such as SYRIZA along with its allies and propagators in the media, bear outsized political responsibilities. As a matter of fact, the practice of SYRIZA supports forms of action vulnerable to the penetration of the state repression mechanisms and other agencies. The political stance of SYRIZA is characterized by political opportunism. In the perspective of gaining a handful of votes at the parliamentary elections they adulate and provide “umbrella” for the hooded persons, setting their sight on the ballot-box and the post-election developments concerning the formation of the government.
6. The CC salutes the participation of tens of thousands of protestors, workers and youths in the rally organised by KKE and KNE on Monday, 8th December. During the mobilisation it became obvious that there was a plan aiming at involving KKE in a conflict with the hooded persons and suppression forces. KKE has not fallen into that trap. On the contrary, it organised successfully militant, mass mobilisations in Athens and in dozens of towns throughout the country. These mobilisations have achieved their goals and no protestor has been injured. It is an imperative need for those who quitted fighting in the past or those who are not yet determined to fight, to join the struggle. The organised popular movement should take the matter into its own hands starting from the workplaces, the places of residence, and coordinating its action among sectors, municipalities and neighbourhoods. When representatives elected by workers do not respond to their duties, betray the struggle of the workers and hinder the processes of the struggle, the workers should take the matter into their own hands and create struggle committees. They should rally and coordinate their forces throughout the country and put forward economical, social and political demands against the repression laws.
This situation demands great alertness in view of the possibility of early elections, so that the parties of the bipartisan system suffer a strong blow. At the same time, it is important to reinforce KKE, as it constitutes the resolute factor for the development of the class struggle and of the social-political Front, for the struggle for conquests in the road of rupture and overthrow of the dominant policy. People should give ND and PASOK a good lesson in the following elections. They must condemn, weaken, leave behind the parties of the bipartisan alternation and their allies, all those who degenerate the pure radicalism in order to conserve the rotten, unjust and corrupted system of repression and violence. The first step in this direction is the strengthening and joint action with KKE in all fields. The members of the Party and of KNE must take initiatives, and combine with determination, increased alertness, creativity and preparedness, the massive enlightenment and information of the people about the position of KKE and its posture regarding the current events, with the completion of the pre-congress debate within the Party, in view of the 18th Congress, contributing further to the development of the popular and youth struggles.
Struggle-organisation-alertness-readiness
Along with KKE we organise people’s and youth counterattack
For a broad popular alliance, the sole hope and guarantee for a genuine popular power
e-mail:cpg@int.kke.gr