The seventh congress
[1st -6th October 1945]
The congress, examining the situation developed in Greece due to the foreign imperialist intervention and the general aggression of reactionary forces after December and the Varkisa Treaty, asserted:
«Within the Europe wide flourishing of democratic and socialist revival, Greece, because of the armed foreign intervention, constitutes a tragic exception. The foreign intervention halted the normal political life and development of the country».
«The policy of national and people’s unity attained during the dark years of servitude-it is mentioned in the resolutions of the congress - constitutes, even today, the decisive guarantee for the prevention of total vanishing».
«The political coalition of the National Liberation Front made every possible retreat for the unity of all those opposing the violent, arbitrary solutions and it is not going to abandon this effort - provided that the murderous, terrorist action against people does not stop. The use of the same means by the people in order to confront the terrorist actions of the Black Front, SAN, X and SIAS constitute a legal right of defence.»
This was a Program Congress. One of the important issues discussed was the development of heavy industry in Greece, based on the domestic resources and capacities. This would give a scientific reply to the bourgeois theories about «Greece being a poor country» and to the notorious «Great Concept», which claimed that there could be no development without the support and the activity of foreign capital and imperialism, and that Greece must expand itself territorially in order to progress. Simultaneously, inquiring into the financial state, the congress asserted that people are under tragic conditions, underling that restoration of the destroyed economy cannot occur if this burdens people.
The congress voted the Platform of People’s Republic as the program the application of which opens the road to socialism. Nationalisation of credit capital, of large means of transport, of industries which are of prime national importance, were thought to be the substantial measures for the transition to socialism. It denounced the British military occupation and demanded the expulsion of the British as a prerequisite for normal democratic development.
Additionally it defined the foreign policy framework on the basis of mutual, peaceful, creative co-operation with all nations and close co-operation with the USSR. Finally, it put forward duties for the party reconstruction and improvement of party and mass work. It drew attention to the adherence of principles, to the party education, to the combination of legal and illegal work, to the promotion of people’s struggles for immediate demands, while it stressed the need for people’s popular self-defence against terrorism and oppression. The congress voted a new Constitution. This congress constitutes the milestone in the CP’s history. It made the party stronger and enabled it to uncompromisingly continue as a vanguard in the people’s struggles at a very difficult turning point for the people’s revolutionary movement in our country.
| On 1st -6th October 1945 the 7th Congress of KKE began its works in Athens. The circumstances were completely different compared with those under which the 6th Congress met. Noble duties were set for the party after the liberation and the British presence in Greece, as well as the prospect of the socio-economic developments nation wide and internationally. The war had ended with the signing of the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 9th 1945, the heroic acts of the Soviet people and the heroic Red Army. As a result international realities were now totally different. |
The congress, examining the situation developed in Greece due to the foreign imperialist intervention and the general aggression of reactionary forces after December and the Varkisa Treaty, asserted:
«Within the Europe wide flourishing of democratic and socialist revival, Greece, because of the armed foreign intervention, constitutes a tragic exception. The foreign intervention halted the normal political life and development of the country».
«The policy of national and people’s unity attained during the dark years of servitude-it is mentioned in the resolutions of the congress - constitutes, even today, the decisive guarantee for the prevention of total vanishing».
«The political coalition of the National Liberation Front made every possible retreat for the unity of all those opposing the violent, arbitrary solutions and it is not going to abandon this effort - provided that the murderous, terrorist action against people does not stop. The use of the same means by the people in order to confront the terrorist actions of the Black Front, SAN, X and SIAS constitute a legal right of defence.»
This was a Program Congress. One of the important issues discussed was the development of heavy industry in Greece, based on the domestic resources and capacities. This would give a scientific reply to the bourgeois theories about «Greece being a poor country» and to the notorious «Great Concept», which claimed that there could be no development without the support and the activity of foreign capital and imperialism, and that Greece must expand itself territorially in order to progress. Simultaneously, inquiring into the financial state, the congress asserted that people are under tragic conditions, underling that restoration of the destroyed economy cannot occur if this burdens people.
The congress voted the Platform of People’s Republic as the program the application of which opens the road to socialism. Nationalisation of credit capital, of large means of transport, of industries which are of prime national importance, were thought to be the substantial measures for the transition to socialism. It denounced the British military occupation and demanded the expulsion of the British as a prerequisite for normal democratic development.
Additionally it defined the foreign policy framework on the basis of mutual, peaceful, creative co-operation with all nations and close co-operation with the USSR. Finally, it put forward duties for the party reconstruction and improvement of party and mass work. It drew attention to the adherence of principles, to the party education, to the combination of legal and illegal work, to the promotion of people’s struggles for immediate demands, while it stressed the need for people’s popular self-defence against terrorism and oppression. The congress voted a new Constitution. This congress constitutes the milestone in the CP’s history. It made the party stronger and enabled it to uncompromisingly continue as a vanguard in the people’s struggles at a very difficult turning point for the people’s revolutionary movement in our country.
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