“This big red, crimson gathering of people and youth here in Athens confirms that the positive step taken in May can now be a leap. With the even greater strengthening of the KKE. And this is the most optimistic, the most hopeful message!

Because Sunday’s ballot box may produce the next anti-popular government, but the crucial thing for the people is that it will show a 100% militant, popular opposition. And this is only the KKE, even stronger, more powerful” emphasized the head of the KKE Central Committee, Dimitris Koutsoubas in his speech tonight at the large central pre-election gathering of the KKE at the Syntagma.

“Tonight in Syntagma Square, the central pre-election gathering of the KKE is not just taking place. Tonight here, the first major demonstration of the people of Athens is taking place against the ND government which thinks it is coming “on horseback” to implement its anti-people program. He already started dividing ministries, pulling out bills from the drawers. We warn them: Be careful, because others also came riding on the horse, but they suddenly got off” he added.

He emphasized that “no bourgeois government can feel all-powerful when the labor-popular movement is strong. And in this country there is a strong KKE, a guarantee that the people and their movement will be strong.”

He said that the working men and women, the common people who voted for the ND have no reason to strengthen it more “they have every reason to shorten it because they will find this vote for the ND against them tomorrow”.

“Just as the workers have no reason to strengthen the ND even more, they also have no reason to spread their vote to the consensual, systemic opposition parties, SYRIZA and PASOK. They have nothing to offer our people and their struggles, not even the parties-creations of the media establishment, such as Mrs. Konstantopoulou’s with her sinful past. Not even the various far-right formations that are being pushed to enter the Parliament,” he added.

“Fortunately in Greece there is a real choice for the people, a choice of 100% popular, militant opposition, because there is KKE” underlined D. Koutsoumbas.

He noted that because they know that the KKE will make life difficult for them, they are trying to silence his voice with exclusions, fines, and even with prosecutions of his officials, who come in front of the struggles of the people and the youth, and underlined: “You are getting tired for no reason, you don’t get rid of us that easily.”

He stated, among other things, that “it will not make any positive difference for the people if PASOK has one more unit, it will not make any positive difference for the people if SYRIZA has one more unit. It will be a negative development to increase the number of MPs who will continue on the path that made the ND stronger, that is, on the path of consensual opposition, convergence on strategic issues and the passing of dozens of unpopular bills”.

“For the KKE, however, not 1%, but even one person taking the step counts and makes a difference. Because he is a consciousness that goes forward, he is a person who can be lined up at the side of those who, with the organized, collective struggle, multiply the foci of resistance and assertion” he emphasized.

“In the polls on Sunday, we will go in every way, with every sacrifice and we will go with heart, with mind, but also with anger” he said.

“Our own mind, our own thought is devoted to the liberation of all of us from the shackles of exploitation. In the overthrow of barbarism and the building of another, just society, the society of socialism. This is, after all, the reason why the KKE exists. And this is also the reason why the KKE is the only party that can make a real, militant, popular opposition, not only against the anti-people government of the ND, but against the system and its power itself, to finally open the way of the overthrow so that the people themselves, the workers, will come to power, take the wealth they produce into their own hands, so that we can live based on the possibilities of the time” he added.

“At the ballot box on Sunday, we will all go and we will go with great anger. For the hundreds of souls that perished off Pylos. For this new crime of the EU and its politics, the governments, the parties that shaped it and implemented it. For this new crime, in the final analysis, of the blood-soaked system of exploitation” said D. Koutsoubas.

“With heart, mind and anger, the youth will also go to the polls on Sunday. No matter how many people do what they can to push her to abstain, no matter how many obstacles they put her in,” he said, underlining that “the next anti-people government of the ND knows that it will have in front of it a young wave of questioning that will flare up with radical characteristics . Which will fight, without stinging the dilemmas and blackmails of the bourgeois political system”.

“In the KKE and the KNE we practice questioning, we dare to fight for everything that the new generation deserves. That is why the youth in front of the polls on June 25th have only one choice: KKE”.

He emphasized that not a single vote that might fall to the KKE should be lost.

He called on those who supported the KKE on May 21 to do so again and added that now they have another chance to vote for the KKE who did not vote for it on May 21, because “only with a strong KKE, the genuine 100% militant-popular opposition, against the independence of capital politics, in the ND government, in the “opposition ministry” of SYRIZA – PASOK and all the parties of the system”.

He said that the vote in the KKE is not bargained for government seats in anti-popular urban governments, it is not exchanged, it is not bought.

He emphasized that the KKE “has no commitments to the EU and NATO, to the blood-stained profits of capital. A vote for the KKE means a vote for our lives and not for their profits. It translates into conflict, disobedience to all that offends us. It means above all hope and optimism, that we will succeed. That the people will win.”

“The KKE has a program of power – governance with the people at the helm of power, the real owner of the wealth they produce. Because in today’s barbarism there is a way out in favor of the people: And the way out lies in the conflict and overthrow of the rotten, corrupt system. To build a society with prosperity, social rights, superior culture. On the buoy of our dreams. To the boi of men!’ concluded D. Koutsoubas in his speech.