The KKE honoured its 94 year anniversary
On Sunday the 25th of November the KKE honoured the 94 year anniversary of its foundation in 1918. On the 17/11/1918, under the light shone by the October Socialist Revolution in Russia, the 1st founding Congress of the Socialist Workers’ Party of Greece (SEKE) was held, which at its 3rd Extraordinary Congress in 1924 was renamed the Communist Party of Greece.
In this period all over Greece the organizations of the KKE have been holding events for the anniversary of the party’s foundation. On the 25th of November the central event was held at an indoor stadium in Piraeus, just a few kilometres from the place where the founding Congress of the party was held.
A sea of the members and friends of the party was present at the event where Aleka Papariga, GS of the CC of the KKE, spoke and there followed a music programme. Kemal Okuyan from the CP of Turkey and Julio Diaz from the CP of the Peoples’ of Spain addressed the event. The “Solidarity motion with the KKE and the class struggles in Greece”, which was signed by dozens of communist and workers’ parties that participated in the 14th IMCWP in Beirut (23-25/11/2012) was read out.
As the GS of the CC of the KKE stressed: “We pose the real question to the people: Who today can fight the bourgeois parties and contribute to open cracks in the bourgeois political system? Which strategy can deprive the bourgeois system of its reserves, to destabilize it in favour of the people? Who other than the KKE, the people’s alliance, the anti-monopoly line of struggle? We were and we are present in every mobilization of the people regarding their immediate pressing problems, with the ambition of achieving at least some relief for the people. But, the struggle must have a direction, a prospect, the people cannot march blindly, especially today. The workers’-people’s power, the people’s economy is the only alternative solution to the tortuous and barbaric present. It will come to Greece and other countries, through the will of the working class and its allies.”
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To see a video of the event
(We will soon be able to present the full translation of Aleka Papariga’s speech)
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