The KKE on the developments in Cyprus

The Press Office of the CC of the KKE, in its statement in relation to the decision of the EUROGROUP about Cyprus, notes the following:

“The KKE denounces the anti-people decision of the EUROGROUP about Cyprus and the negative impact on the people’s income which the imposition of this heavy tax on the bank accounts will have. The KKE stands at the Cypriot people’s side, expressing its solidarity against the barbaric anti-people measures which are imposed by the EU-IMF-bourgeois governments on the peoples of both countries.”

Meanwhile, the Party Base Organization of the KKE and the Base organization of KNE in Cyprus are calling for participation in the demonstration on Tuesday 5.00 PM outside the Cypriot parliament, with the slogan “The plutocracy must pay for the crisis-Conflict with the EU, IMF, and bourgeois governments in Cyprus and Greece”.

In its statement, the organizations of the KKE and KNE in Cyprus note amongst other things:

“The KKE stands at the side of the Cypriot people, expressing its solidarity against the barbaric anti-people measures which are imposed by the EU-IMF-bourgeois governments on the peoples of both countries. We call on the Cypriot people, the workers in Cyprus as a whole to resist this anti-people political line. They must not allow any hands to be laid on the people’s income, something which has as its goal the continuation of the profitability of banking capital and the monopolies.

Now more than ever is the time for the workers of Cyprus to draw conclusions about the role of the EU and its mechanisms. It has been demonstrated that the EU is a predatory alliance which from its very nature benefits capital. The “solidarity” and the “collective values” which are constantly being promoted by the bourgeois governments were exposed in reality through the blackmail scenarios of the EU-IMF-Russia.

Now they are calling on the people to pay for the damage. Once again the loan packages confirm that they have as their goal the acceleration of the predetermined measures, in the framework of the controlled bankruptcy of member-states.

We must not wait!

Both the Cypriot and Greek peoples must choose another path when they are confronted by the dilemma of a “haircut” or bankruptcy. They must choose the path of rupture with and overthrow of the capitalist system. The system which brings unemployment, poverty for the families of the popular strata, which imposes a “haircut” on the people’s income. They must choose the path of conflict with the monopolies and their representatives, the EU, IMF and their domestic bourgeois governments.”