The eleventh congress
[14-19 December 1982]
In December 1982, the 11th Congress convened at the Party’s Convention Hall in the Athens suburb of Perissos. The Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) has already been in government and the congress dealt with the new situation developing in the country.
As far as the Ruling Class strategy, the congress estimates that: «since the 1977 elections... the future electoral defeat of the Right wing has been apparent. At the same time, the traditional Centre was breaking up and as a consequence a new opening for an alternative solution was formed. Faced with these developments, the Ruling Class concentrates all its efforts on restricting the PSM to a party playing the role of interchange within the framework of a two-party political system leaving the CP «in the corner». «We do not overlook», states the Congress, «the many and great difficulties of the new situation. However, we trust the working class struggles, the working people’s fights, the potentialities of the united antimonopoly, anti-imperialist people’s movement and our party’s militancy and political maturity».
The 11th Congress worked on the alternative solutions of «Real Change» which, it was thought, not only provides realistic answers to all burning and acute problems that burden the people and the country but also - under certain prerequisites - it can be a form of passing to a unified revolutionary process of transition to socialism. As the fundamental objective of «Real Change» the congress considered the decisive confrontation of the problems of national independence, the way out of the crisis through an economic development benefiting the working people as well as the substantial democratisation; the above factors determined the Party stance to the PSM (PASOK) Government.
In realising these objectives, the Party adopted the concept of a democratic government which, «supported by the popular mass movement, will express all these forces favouring, each to a different degree, «Real Change» and will apply an antimonopoly anti-imperialist Platform».
The congress elaborated, under these conditions, on immediate struggle targets in order to confront the crisis through an economic development favouring the masses; while it underlined the need to strengthen the struggle against nuclear weapons deployed in our country, the exodus from NATO and the removal of military bases.
In December 1982, the 11th Congress convened at the Party’s Convention Hall in the Athens suburb of Perissos. The Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) has already been in government and the congress dealt with the new situation developing in the country.
As far as the Ruling Class strategy, the congress estimates that: «since the 1977 elections... the future electoral defeat of the Right wing has been apparent. At the same time, the traditional Centre was breaking up and as a consequence a new opening for an alternative solution was formed. Faced with these developments, the Ruling Class concentrates all its efforts on restricting the PSM to a party playing the role of interchange within the framework of a two-party political system leaving the CP «in the corner». «We do not overlook», states the Congress, «the many and great difficulties of the new situation. However, we trust the working class struggles, the working people’s fights, the potentialities of the united antimonopoly, anti-imperialist people’s movement and our party’s militancy and political maturity».
The 11th Congress worked on the alternative solutions of «Real Change» which, it was thought, not only provides realistic answers to all burning and acute problems that burden the people and the country but also - under certain prerequisites - it can be a form of passing to a unified revolutionary process of transition to socialism. As the fundamental objective of «Real Change» the congress considered the decisive confrontation of the problems of national independence, the way out of the crisis through an economic development benefiting the working people as well as the substantial democratisation; the above factors determined the Party stance to the PSM (PASOK) Government.
In realising these objectives, the Party adopted the concept of a democratic government which, «supported by the popular mass movement, will express all these forces favouring, each to a different degree, «Real Change» and will apply an antimonopoly anti-imperialist Platform».
The congress elaborated, under these conditions, on immediate struggle targets in order to confront the crisis through an economic development favouring the masses; while it underlined the need to strengthen the struggle against nuclear weapons deployed in our country, the exodus from NATO and the removal of military bases.
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