“We do not compromise with the brutality of this system that has turned the seas of the Mediterranean into a wet grave for thousands of uprooted people,” said the head of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, at the beginning of his speech tonight at a large gathering of the KKE in Peristeri.

“Just as we do not accept the fact that we can count dead people every three or so in fires, floods, hospitals, on trains, we will not accept the loss of babies, small children with their mothers locked in a hold at the bottom of the sea. They count profits and losses, we count human lives. We do not compromise because we know that there are causes and culprits and we have decided to fight them with all our strength, until we overthrow them, in order to live as we and our children deserve. This is how it should be done and this is how it will be done…” emphasized Mr. Koutsoubas.

he pointed out that: “Behind the refugee-immigrant flows” is poverty, the exploitation produced by this rotten system capitalism, which everyone, except KKE, defends and serves, while they only fight about who will sit in the chairs to manage him. Behind are the big investments that turn the wealth of these countries into a curse for their people. There are the imperialist interventions, the wars, the civil conflicts unleashed and instigated by NATO, the EU, other imperialist centers.

Responding “to the parties and the media of the system” who ask what Greece can do to stop the wars, the General Secretary of the KKE said: “Stop the country’s involvement in the interventions, close the bases, return the Greek soldiers who are outside the borders, to abolish the military agreements with the USA and France that provide for the assistance of Greek forces in the Sahel”. “Do this! But you won’t do them, because you are serving this policy, which aims to strengthen the position of the Greek bourgeoisie, which wants bigger pieces for itself from the imperialist spoils. Well, this loot is always soaked in the blood of the peoples, as it proved in a tragic way yesterday outside of Pylos” he said characteristically.

Mr. Koutsoumbas emphasized that: “The crime continues when the uprooted try to enter Europe-fortress, as “instead of receiving them, already from the territory of Turkey and other countries, with asylum examination committees, so that they do not have to they risk dangerous journeys, as the KKE suggests, sometimes they run into fences like the Evros, sometimes at FRONTEX, sometimes at the Spanish border guard that murders them, sometimes at some of the NATO frigates that the governments have called to monitor the Aegean”.

He noted that the fence “for which ND, PASOK and SYRIZA are arguing” is “effective as its purpose is to make the passage of the uprooted more and more difficult and thus the traffickers’ tariffs rise, this is how dangerous routes are chosen, this is how we arrive at many dead shipwrecks” and continued “For those who finally manage to arrive, the next part of the drama begins, sometimes with the Morias of SYRIZA, sometimes with the closed structures of the ND, where the persecuted find that they have left one barbarity to find themselves in a another” he said adding that “those who don’t do it for cheap labor take the road back, perhaps to try again later on a new journey of death.”

“This barbaric policy has been served by all Greek governments to date. So, let the parties that have governed, the parties that present the EU and NATO as the “common” home of the peoples, not pretend that they know nothing about crime. Because they cause even more anger, even at such times, by talking about EU values ​​that are allegedly being violated. This is their European Union, them and their values. And that’s why they are all accountable for this crime, which should become an additional voting criterion in front of the ballot box next Sunday” emphasized D. Koutsoubas.