“We will fight the political battle for the European elections with open battle fronts! By deepening the social alliance in an anti-capitalist anti-monopoly direction! By strengthening the current of questioning and opposition to the imperialist associations of the EU and NATO. Because at the end of this battle, the current of questioning the anti-popular policy, the ND government and the consensus offered to it by the parties of the system, SYRIZA, PASOK and the rest, must emerge as a much stronger overall” stressed the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubasin his speech today at event of the Central Committee of the KKE at SEF with the theme: “The call of the Central Committee of the KKE to the Greek people for the European elections”.

“The EU, this prison of the peoples, which exists only to secure the interests of the European monopolies, crushing every popular right, with the its directions and decisions, in all areas of our lives” he added.

He stressed that “the lies of the various EU parties about ‘convergence’, ‘prosperity’, ‘guaranteeing rights’ that membership in this Union would offer our people have been exposed”, pointing out that “on the contrary, the people and the youth are paying in every area of ​​their lives the country’s participation in the EU of monopolies. Behind all their suffering and big problems, is the pursuit of big capital, to maximize its profitability, which bears the stamp of EU directives, regulations, treaties”.

“The KKE can look the people in the eye, because from the first moment it told the truth about the EU, going against the flow! Because she is organizing the fight against her strategy!” he said.

He underlined that “the EU, together with the USA and NATO, is the protagonist of imperialist wars and interventions”, while he pointed out, among other things, that “the EU, together with the USA and NATO, encourages Turkish claims at the expense of sovereignty and of the sovereign rights of the country, setting the table together with the bourgeoisie of Greece for the co-exploitation of the Aegean and the N.A. Mediterranean, the dichotomous “solution” of Cyprus with a Euro-NATO stamp at the expense of the interests of the Cypriot people”.

He reminded that EU policy “was co-shaped and co-shaped, implemented and implemented by the governments of ND, PASOK and SYRIZA. It is voted for by all bourgeois parties, social democratic, liberal and far-right parties, in the European Parliament and in the Greek Parliament”.

He also said that all these parties “rejected the proposal of the KKE during the recent constitutional revision to overturn the supremacy of EU law at the expense of the country’s law”.

He pointed out that the harsh anti-popular policy “is implemented by both the “neoliberal” governments and the supposedly “progressive governments” of the sinful social democracy advertised by SYRIZA and PASOK” adding that “that is why the vote is lost to these parties” and underlining “that is why the struggle, to be effective, must be directed at the total overthrow of this rotten system, at the conquest of a genuine workers’, people’s government and power.”

“The KKE, with its modern, scientifically elaborated program, documents that the European Union of capital, exploitation, precision, poverty, imperialist wars is not a one-way street,” said D. Koutsoubas.

“Only the people will save the people, deciding to free themselves from the shackles of the power of capital and its associations. To get rid of all those who sit on his neck, taking the keys of power and economy into his own hands.

We march with this compass because it is the only way to have conquests, to prevent anti-popular measures, to have some breaths of relief and above all optimism.

Strengthening the KKE in the European elections will be the only option, the only really important contribution to this case” he added.

He said that the strengthening of the KKE in the European elections “will give impetus to every labor-popular struggle and claim, in which the KKE leads with all its forces”, “it will prove that the people have not given a blank check to the ND and Mitsotakis “, “will give breath, courage to all those who see that the political and organizational degeneration of SYRIZA, at its recent Congress, went to a completely different level, with more reactionary characteristics” while “the evolution of PASOK, the other pole, is also expected of social democracy in our country, which, no matter what it does, cannot get a divorce from its sinful past”.

“Honest people have stitches in their fur and for the other parties that broke away from SYRIZA, such as NEA Aristera, Pleussi, MERA, who are trying in vain to rechristen themselves, if only to “bite” something from the popular discontent” he added .

“The strengthening of the KKE in the European elections in combination with organized popular action and determination is the only one that can also put a barrier to the strengthening of far-right, fascist forces. Because the far-right and the various fascists cannot be fought by the liberal or social-democratic parties, the EU cannot fight it, because the far-right is “their child”, a entrails from the entrails of their system” emphasized D Koutsoubas, noting, among other things:

“Only the KKE can expose the far-right forces in our country. Powers, for example, like Velopoulos who can shut down the plutocracy at all costs, who speak populist mocking the popular strata, with wax ointments and the “virgin geisha”, who throw a few crowns against the system, in general and abstractly, they are ultimately more systemic than the systemic.”

D. Koutsoubas said that “with the KKE ballot, our people can express their disapproval of the EU and their desire for the real Europe of the peoples”, while he emphasized that the MEPs of the KKE will, as always, reveal, inform the Greek people for all the anti-popular, reactionary things they are preparing for it. Because the MEPs of the KKE have always defended the working people’s rights. They became the voice of the people, because the KKE has no commitments from the groups and the interests of capital”.

He called for the strengthening of the fighting partnership with the KKE “and for one more special reason regarding the European elections: To send from Greece a pan-European message of hope and strengthening of the struggles, with an even stronger KKE in Greece and in Europe!”.

“With a much stronger KKE for a pan-European counterattack! Break the bonds of the EU!

For Greece and the Europe of Socialism, the Europe of the workers, the farmers, the peoples! In the EU of today’s brutality, we send the appropriate message: Stronger KKE – more mass counter-attack struggles for the people’s right!” emphasized D. Koutsoubas, concluding his speech.