The head of the KE of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, in a speech today, Sunday, January 28, 2024, at an event of the party’s Phocis Sectoral Committee, referred to the matches “that we have to give again this year, to defend the public income. To demand wage increases for workers and employees. Measures for farmers and professionals to get back on their feet and breathe. And with them free education and health for our families».

He pointed out that “The entire anti-popular policy of the ND government is unfolding in front of us, which leaves nothing standing” adding that “at the same time, in a very clear way, the consensus enjoyed by the other parties, mainly SYRIZA and PASOK, is expressed».

As an example of this consent to the ND government on behalf of SYRIZA, PASOK and Plefsis Eleftherias, he mentioned the support by these parties of the bill for postal voting in the European elections, adding “and they gave the opportunity to the government to wrap them in a piece of sticky paper, with the surprise amendment it tabled in the Plenary, so that the postal vote would also be valid in the national elections. And then they began to cry, but it was too late for tears».

“The same consensus is expressed, however, in the dangerous involvement in the NATO war plans. For the first time in fact, SYRIZA and PASOK voted in favor of the military expenditures of the ND state budgethe added.

He emphasized that “no one except the KKE is making a fuss” and then emphasized: “But what will SYRIZA and PASOK say? They can’t, because they are busy, they stick labels of progressivity on Mitsotakis and his government, who with their own tolerance even appears as a defender of equality and progress! And know that it is not by chance, neither the period nor the content, on which this infamous consensus is “built”».

D. Koutsoubas stated that “in the next period, popular problems will intensify. And together with them, the indignation and dissatisfaction will grow because the implementation of this anti-popular policy will progress in all sectors” and he underlined that “in these exact conditions, it becomes even more obvious that only the organized people can be an “opponent of awe”. Which goes out into the streets of the struggle and joins even more decisively with the KKE”.

He referred to the struggles of workers and peasant bio-wrestlers who “they are back in the fight blocks, rallying in their racing Federations and clubs, demanding measures for their very survival, against degrading prices and their elimination from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, which all other parties serve».

“With their struggle, they also respond to the slanders raised by government ministers, about “minorities” and “incited” struggles, but also to the attempt to suppress their struggle. From the great mobilizations of the 90s until today, the same tale is monotonously repeated by all governments. But in vain. Because it is precisely their policies, the policies of the EU they serve, that are responsible for the skyrocketing production costs. As well as the fact that subsistence farmers and breeders are left at the mercy of the weather and various diseases, without being fully compensated for the damage to their production. This year they even saw their income gnawed away even more by the new CAP’s big cuts to basic support and linked to some productshe added.

Said that “the KKE and through its members who are farmers, with its organizations in the countryside, but also with its parliamentarians, with its cadres, is at the forefront of the struggles, wholeheartedly committed to their support in order to win”, noting, in then, “the ND government and the rest, they are…, against the workers, the professionals, the farmers, the students, against the people who are fighting for their rights, servants of a minority that is doing well in this country».

D. Koutsoubas referred to the very important fight they are fighting these days through their associations and their coordinating committees “against the establishment of private universities, claiming modern, public and free Education and fighting for degrees and studies with value, work with rightsa”, emphasizing “they must be supported by all of us. Especially today after the prosecutor’s order for summonses to question students and professors for their competitive protests. The government already seems to be losing its temper in front of the rushing youth river».

“The struggles that are unfolding must be united in a great river of struggle, in the general nationwide strike on February 28. In one year since the crime of Tempe, let the slogan “their profits or our lives” be heard again.» he underlined and concluded his speech:

“Let this slogan be our guide in all the struggles ahead of us, up to the important battle of the European elections in June, where a resounding slap must be given to this anti-popular policy, to the government and the parties that serve it, but and in the EU itself.

With a much stronger KKE, let us send from Greece a message of struggle, hope and overthrow to all the peoples of Europe, who are also on the streets».