Pre-election rally of the KKE in Thessalonica

The KKE must be strengthened. It has been proved correct and know how to organize the people

The election campaign of the KKE continues throughout the whole of Greece in the run-up to the first round of the regional and municipal elections on the 7^th of November. The KKE supports the lists of “People’s rally” which have been formed in the 13 regions of our country as well as in 260 municipalities.

Over the last month there have taken place hundreds of rallies, meetings, and candidate’s tours of work places and neighbourhoods. In the home stretch, in the final week of the elections, the KKE held its central pre-election rally in Thessalonica on the 2^nd of November in Thessalonica, the second largest city in the country.

“The anger of the people must be translated into the power of the people, “People’s Rally” must be supported everywhere.» This was shouted yesterday by thousands of workers, young people, small tradesmen, who participated in a mass way in the pre-election rally of the Party Organization of Thessalonica of the KKE in the Vellidion Conference Centre. The main speakers were Aleka Papariga, GS of the CC of the KKE, Theodosis Konstantinidis, Member of the PB of the CC of the KKE, candidate for the regional prefecture of Central Macedonia, and Sotiris Zarianopoulos, mayoral candidate for the city of Thessalonica. They sent the message that in the few days that remain, they would not waste even one minute. The list of “People’s Rally” must reach every popular household. So that every worker who is angry, every ordinary person who understands that things cannot continue like this, will make the step. So that these people answer the ideological blackmail concerning the bankruptcy of the country, destabilization and terrorism, by voting for the lists which are supported by the KKE.

The GS of the CC of the KKE, in her speech to the rally, stressed that there is no problem that we should not be mindful of at the ballot box-at work, concerning our salaries, wages, pensions, the situation in the education system and the problems in the health service, welfare, as well as the clear dangers that threaten us in the Aegean, the Balkans, in the Eastern Mediterranean. No more tolerance. The KKE has been proved correct. It knows how to organize the people. They cannot control it. It has an alliance policy which is rooted in the common interests of the working class, small businessmen and poor farmers. We must organize the opposition to the monopolies and imperialism. We can do it.