The transformation of Piraeus into a NATO port does not serve the needs of the people, said the general secretary of the KKE
“The heart of the Festival of KNE and the” Driver “beats here in Piraeus, not accidentally in a place like that of the former fertilizer factory, which is tied to the history of the place. The heart of the KKE and the KNE beats here, in a place that the people of the region as a whole claim, to meet their needs for leisure, access to the sea, for sports and cultural activities of the youth of Piraeus and the wider region.
“If today this small section functions as a park, offering some breath in the neighborhoods of Piraeus, everyone knows that this was done under the pressure of the big struggles of trade unions, other mass organizations of Piraeus, with the KKE and the KNE at the forefront,” he said. general secretary of the KKE Central Committee, Dimitris Koutsoumbasin his speech tonight at the Festival of the Sectoral Organization of Piraeus and the Sectoral Organizations of KNE in Fertilizers Drapetsonas.
“The proposal to claim the KKE, which also highlights on the occasion of the Festival: The expropriation and return of a total of 640 acres without any compensation. A proposal that is in stark contrast to the plans of big business interests, government and local authorities, who see the region only as a steak for profitable businesses. “ he added.
He stressed that the conversion of his port Piraeus in a NATO port does not serve the needs of the people, while the only goal it serves is “that of the country’s growing participation in the imperialist war.”
He added that the US-NATO involvement does not shield against Turkish aggression and stressed that “no one can be complacent. On the contrary: it must be prepared. Because whether the tension in Greek-Turkish relations develops into a hot episode or a more serious crisis, what is certain is that on the Euro-Atlantic table are the efforts of a compromise for co-operation, co-management in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. “All this will have only negative consequences for the sovereign rights of the country, even for part of its sovereignty.”
D. Koutsoumbas said that the urban plans for Piraeus do not serve the working people’s needs and referred, in detail, to the “harsh reality that the working-popular family lives in all areas of Piraeus”.
“The people of Piraeus should not have any illusions. All these plans are successively served by all governments and local authorities, despite the differences between them, promoting EU directions. The ND government continues unabated, like the regional authority, firmly holding the baton it received from SYRIZA. They all have their own share of responsibility “said D. Koutsoumbas, noting that” a condition for their development is the greater exploitation of the workers “and emphasizing that” the workers, the people of Piraeus have nothing to gain by entering between and make the traffic warden in the business interests that conflict here in the area. On the contrary, he has a lot to gain, his whole life, walking on his own path for his own modern needs “.
He stressed that in the face of “the bourgeois parties that use the content of progress as a cover to hide the reactionary class character of their politics”, in the country there are the KKE and the KNE who with their positions and actions illuminate what is really progressive in the 21st century “and explained with concrete examples the content of progress in terms of working conditions, the life of popular families and working women, the living conditions of young workers and students, including the content of studies” .
“The areas of supervised death are not progress either, at a time when dry detoxification programs are suffocating from underfunding. “Progress is to believe that every person can win his life back, if he makes a decision and is supported,” he added.
“The greatest preservation is the apotheosis of subjectivity, of the individual experience, the denial of the objective element in the world around us, because this view contributes to never changing anything. However, if we want to change this world, we must get to know it, to be able to understand the laws that govern its movement “, he stressed.
He stressed that “progress is the discussion, the organization, the solidarity among the workers”, adding that the hope that the worker will not live like a slave, grows stronger. Proof is the nationwide meeting of PAME with 506 trade unions, more than ever, which for two days discussed how the labor-trade union movement can count steps in the direction of its reorganization and counterattack “.
He referred to a number of important and promising labor struggles, stressing that “whatever positive can come about for the workers, the people, this will be done through their organized action for their rights and not by waiting for a new” savior “. “, a supposedly new government, whatever it is called.”
“The people of Piraeus must not wait. “He opposes the effects of government and business plans on his life, defends his neighborhoods, his last free spaces,” he said, adding that “in these great struggles the KKE and the KNE were the soul and the organizer of the popular struggle.” then in escalation of this struggle.
D. Koutsoubas said that “all possible scenarios for the formation of the next bourgeois government are unpopular because they are written by the staffs of the bourgeois political system and express the capital’s desire to secure a conciliatory government because the system has great difficulties. The difficulties of the system also concern the effects of the participation in the war in Ukraine and the developments in the Greek-Turkish crisis that is escalating, but also the new economic crisis that is just around the corner in the EU with serious effects on the Greek economy “.
So for these “difficult”, the bourgeois staffs see that it is not enough to need one and at least a second, bourgeois party to turn its back, it needs a government of the type of “national cooperation, conciliation and tolerance”. They can make it and they will make it. “Because all the bourgeois parties and ND and SYRIZA and PASOK / KINAL, despite their differences, communicate well when it comes to the strategic goals of the ruling class they serve,” he added.
“Only now the emergencies for the people, force the workers to write their own script for their own needs, with the same protagonists. And this is for the KKE to come out as strong as possible, as much as possible “, D. Koutsoubas underlined and concluded his speech:
“The KKE has the only realistic plan, positions and proposals for today that at the same time show and that our struggle must go, so that we all have a better life.
If we can take a step forward, it will be because only the KKE lights the way for the people. And this is the new society we are fighting for and envisioning, the new world of creation, socialism. On this road we invite you to walk together. For “the big, the beautiful, the shocking”! For socialism! “Because only with the KKE and the KNE, there is hope for popular prosperity and upliftment,” concluded D. Koutsoumbas in his speech.
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