Two-day festival for immigrants organised by the Athens Party Organisation

Joint class struggle against capital and its power 
  

On Friday and Saturday 2-3 July the Athens Party Organisation of KKE organised for tenth year in succession a two day cultural and political festival for immigrants. Families of Greek and immigrant workers joined the festival whose main slogan was “law is the rights of the workers. People, no sacrifice for plutocracy, build the front to conquer the power”.

All these years the festival has been built in the workplaces and the neighborhoods, with the participation of Greek and Immigrant workers who struggle together in the workplaces, in the neighborhoods, in strikes and demonstrations, through the class oriented trade unions.

Immigrant workers from recycling factories, small textile industries, construction sites, printing companies, metal workers and young second generation immigrants discussed, sang and danced together. 

Communities of immigrants from Tanzania, Philippines, Georgia, Congo, Madagascar, Sudan, Bangladesh, Somalia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Nigeria,  as well as the association for immigrants’ drug rehabilitation “Mosdaik” and the Union of Palestinian Workers living in Greece took part in the festival. PAME, KNE , the “democratic alliance for the people’s freedoms and solidarity” and other mass organizations participated in the festival with their own news-stands.     

The aim of these events is to propagate the theses of KKE on immigration. Furthermore, they offer one more opportunity to discuss about the causes that force the people to leave their countries as well as about the goals of the ant-immigrants policy of the EU and the national governments.  
 

Thanassis Pafilis member of the CC of KKE, MP and district administrator candidate in the upcoming local and regional elections delivered the main speech at the festival.

 The representative of KKE stressed: “it is very important to repel the efforts of the political forces that serve the interests of the plutocracy, to divide the workers, to hinder the participation of the popular forces in a joint front disorienting the people from the real causes of the crisis and the problems”. We will do whatever we can so as to prevent the poison of racism and nationalism from infecting the working people, and the poor popular strata of our country that suffer the capital’s attack.

KKE regards the joint struggle of Greek and immigrant workers as well as other radical forces as a primary task. KKE does not adopt the distinction between “legal” and “illegal” immigrants. It does not accept the term “illegal immigration”. 

The point is that immigrant and Greek workers have common interests. They have the power to overthrow the capitalist barbarity and build the people’s power in a common class struggle with PAME, strengthening KKE against racism and xenophobia, against the illusions about the humanization of capitalism