The head of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, during his today’s speech in Parliament, on the programmatic statements of the government, he said that “the expectations cultivated by the ND government will be quickly disproved”.

As he explained, “things in the international economy and in the Eurozone are not at all as the government wants to present them” and emphasized that the ND government “will find against it all the workers, the youth, their movement in everything it prepares ».

“More massively, more militantly this time, with less illusions about supposedly easy solutions with government changes in a similar direction. And with a stronger KKE getting in front of this attack” he added.

He pointed out that “despite the overall negative political association which the KKE has never overlooked, nor underestimated, at the same time a current of questioning the dominant policy, its class character, is growing stronger, that is, all of those that serve the parties of big capital and the various governments. The search for a solution to today’s problems through the collective organized struggle, the participation in the movement, the collective action is getting stronger.”

Addressing the government he said “you will find us everywhere in front of you and here inside, but mostly outside, on the side of the workers, in their struggles and their just claims. To prevent the worst, but above all to claim substantial increases in wages and pensions, breaths of relief for the people by abolishing unfair taxes, auctions in practice, to fight for upgraded Education and Health, highlighting the abolition of every business activity with which the people are putting their hands deeper and deeper into their pockets”.

“This is real progress. The prospect of these struggles becoming stronger, massing, acquiring a coordinated pan-Hellenic character with a clearer anti-capitalist orientation” he said.

D. Koutsoubas said that the KKE does not criticize the government like that of SYRIZA and PASOK for “delaying the implementation of its program”. “We accuse you of exactly the opposite: that you are running to realize your goals at the expense of the Greek people and their interests,” he underlined.

He added that the KKE “does not accuse the government of allegedly being far from the “normal” European states” because, as he said, “the “normal” European state of Germany with the Social Democratic government of Solz already proceeded with a program of mammoth cuts in social spending amounting to 31 billion euros”.

“We are not with the governments of neither Solz nor Macron in France, we are with the millions of workers and young people who both in Germany and in France demand to live as they deserve” he said and emphasized: “We will be here to we make it more difficult for you to advance this anti-popular program, that is, to catch the capital’s goals, which are watered only with the sweat of the Greek workers”.

D. Koutsoubas mentioned in his speech to huge problems facing due to prevailing politics, among others, working women, young couples, the teachers, students and pupils.

Referring to article 16, he said that “throughout the pre-election period, Mr. Mitsotakis received one pass after another from SYRIZA and PASOK. Now taking advantage of Article 28 which gives the possibility for interstate agreements in the context of the supremacy of EU law over national law, as imposed by the country’s EMU membership, the ND government is looking for ways to overcome the obstacles of Article 16 and opens altogether dangerous roads”.

D. Koutsoubas said that “the government’s policy has a class sign and consequences. There is an organized movement in our country and it will respond to the unacceptable plans that erect new barriers to the education of the children of ordinary families”. “The same in Health where the government’s policy for the new four-year period is summed up in the phrase “a little for the many and a lot for the few”” he emphasized. He also noted that what the government calls “challenges” and “external crises”, “are nothing more than the insurmountable contradictions of the system it serves”.

He emphasized that “today the possibilities for meeting social needs are greater than ever and yet the gap between these possibilities and how the many live is also greater than ever. The Greece that Mr. Mitsotakis spoke about, where the individual ambitions of each and every one will go hand in hand with collective progress, is not going to exist in this system no matter what he does to it.”

“Because capitalism means social progress is sacrificed to maximize individual profit at the expense of the welfare of the many. Because no matter how much they lean towards “modernization”, the only thing this system offers is anachronism, barbarism, regression and rot at the level of ideas, as can be seen with a look here in the various wings of this Parliament,” he stressed.

“Marx and Engels wrote it in the Communist Manifesto: In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms comes a union where the free development of each and every one is a condition for the development of all. In defiance of all of you, future generations will definitely do it. Because we have suffered and we have learned. We have studied the experience, both positive and negative, it is not going to happen again the same weaknesses, shortcomings and the same mistakes will be made. Because indeed the best days are ahead of us, because indeed our best days have not yet been lived. And we will live through them, you can be sure of that. And this will be the big, the beautiful, the shocking” stressed D. Koutsoubas, concluding, in his speech.