Speech of G. Toussas, MEP and Member of the CC of KKE in Warsaw

June 8, 2010

Dear comrades and friends,

From this podium you would like to condemn once again the effort to ban the communist symbols in Poland, to penalize the communist ideology and the action of the Communist Party of Poland. We express our full solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland. We are here to express you the internationalist solidarity of KKE and the Greek communists.

Our presence here is part of the activity of our party against anticommunism. Members and friends of KKE and KNE are demonstrating today outside the Polish embassy demanding the abolition of the unacceptable anticommunist measures and bans. In addition, our party protested anticommunism during the recent visit of the president of the European Parliament J. Buzek to Athens on June 3.

The plutocracy in Poland which preys the public property and the last gains and achievements of socialism in Poland, is today leading a severe attack against the working people and the poor popular strata.

With the capitalist crisis being in progress, proving that capitalism cannot solve even the basic problems of the people, the interest of the bourgeoisie is to divert the thought and the action of the workers and the peoples from socialism, the real way-out.

At the same time, the EU, serving the same class oriented plan, is playing a determinative role in the orchestrated campaign of the imperialist centres to rewrite history. In the framework of this effort that targets straight on the working class and the people’s movements, we witness the official institutionalisation of anticommunism and the slandering of the socialism of the 20th century. The ban of the communist symbols in Poland, the similar procedures in Moldova constitute a new, dangerous development. The capital and its political representatives are forming the basis on which they will try to create a more reactionary legal framework for the penalization of the class struggle , the workers’ and people’s movements, the action of communist parties.

They know well that this policy creates reactions, preconditions for people’s outbreaks with unforeseeable consequences for monopolies’ political system. For that reason, the EU and the European Parliament, the bourgeois governments, activate and lead the vile anti-communist campaign; the falsification of history by means of equating fascism-Nazism with communism; the slandering of the socialist construction and its achievements; the slandering and the persecutions against the communist parties that have not lowered the flags of Marxism-Leninism and the penalisation of the communist ideology.

Anticommunism constitutes a necessary precondition for passing of the barbaric anti-people measures, and striking a blow on the workers’ and people’s movement.

This reactionary development is the continuation of the reactionary “Anticommunist Memorandum”, of the bans, of the campaign for the equation of communism-Nazism that seeks to contaminate the consciousness of the peoples and especially of the youth. The young people are considered to be the “easiest case” as they have not experienced the history of the struggles of the peoples and the USSR against fascism as well as the period of the socialist construction and its contribution to the drastic improvement of peoples’ lives. This development follows the anticommunist motion approved on 2nd April 2009 by the Plenary of the European Parliament and suggests the proclamation of 23rd August as a “ Europe-wide Remembrance Day for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes“. They believe that people have forgotten the true History although the people’s movements and the communist movement represent its continuance. That is what they seek to erase from the consciousness of the peoples.

With these actions the capitalist staff centres seek to serve multiple goals:

• to safeguard the back of the exploitative system and enable its representatives to offend the sacrifices of those who beat the monster of Nazism instead of being accountable for the crimes of imperialism.
• to give indulgence to imperialism and its crimes
• to update the front of the imperialists against the Marxist-Leninist theory, ideology and policy.
  

But nowadays they seek something more: to reinforce the propaganda of the EU in the general attack that the EU and its governments have launched against the rights of the working people with the aim to make the people submit so as to beat every resistance and safeguard their power from any future reactions.

The people, their power and the socialist perspective is what they are afraid of. They cannot hide, no matter how hard they try.

They reveal that anticommunism, in general but also here in Poland, has been the vehicle of all forces that serve plutocracy and imperialism. They admit that the communist ideology, the intensification of the class struggle, the overthrow of capitalism and the construction of socialism are not only necessary but they inspire even more people and for that reason they constitute an existent threat for their exploitative system.

They are right to worry, they will come up against us. Hands of the communist symbols, they are people’s property. The working class and its allies do not intend to hand them over to their class enemies. Anticommunism will not pass. Social development continues with new struggles for the abolition of the exploitation of man by man, for people’s prosperity, for the construction of socialism-communism.