“The great impasses of the system are expressed internationally in all their glory in the political, economic and military fields, with the people always being the victims. And the big bet is the attitude they will take. Whether they will rush to the fore, putting their own stamp on the developments, pushing them in the direction of radical, revolutionary changes, or whether they will remain a dead end to the pursuits of their exploiters, with disastrous consequences.”

The above was noted by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoubas during his speech in Larissa, describing the assessment of the KKE on the international situation, but also the influence it has on our country.

At the same time, he noted that the KKE had been warning and preparing for what was happening all these years, stressing that “every day a new development from some corner of the world reminds us of the fact that the rivalries of the powerful, the capitalists, their imperialist alliances, have has now reached such a point, that they can neither be resolved, nor be settled temporarily, in the ways that have been done until now”.

Regarding the international situation and the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, Mr. Koutsoubas said that in Syria “another intervention that portends new suffering for its people, the people of the region, new waves of refugees, possible new border changes”, to add: “The well-known “jihadists” who occupied Damascus with the direct military support for the American NATO and Turkey, which already owns Syrian territory and which, in this particular case, the Euro-Atlantic propaganda has baptized “rebels” and “liberators” and on the other hand Israel which is also launching its trial attack”.

Regarding the war in Gaza, he said that “the genocide of the Palestinian people by the murderous state of Israel and the now wanted by the International Criminal Court as a war criminal, Mitsotakis’s friend, Netanyahu, continues.”

Analyzing the situation on the war front in Ukraine, he said that the episodes of escalation follow one another, “with the consequences continuing to be paid by the people”.

“First the Russian and Ukrainian people, who – yes, we will insist on saying this no matter how much the parrots of the “right side of history” are annoyed – that for 70 years they lived peacefully and prospered under socialism, within the framework of the Soviet Union. Also, the other peoples of Europe, like ours, who see the electricity prices, for another month, pull the uphill,” he emphasized.

In relation to the economic situation in Europe, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE estimated that there is a government crisis in the two largest economies of the EU, such as Germany and France, to explain that “these are signs of a new capitalist crisis”.

“Germany is already in recession, while France is facing historically high deficits. From this alone one understands how out of place and time are the triumphalisms of the Greek government, on the occasion of the submission of the state budget for 2025, for the various indicators that are prosperous. In fact, at a time when our people are having difficulty even meeting basic needs, due to punctuality, low wages and taxation, which will intensify even more next year,” said Mr. Koutsoumpas.

At the same time, he did not leave out his analysis of what is happening in South Korea on the occasion of martial law, noting that all the above developments “are not just some “international news”, but concern our country, our people and indeed with a lot direct way”.

“Greece, with the absolute responsibility of the ND government and the complicity of the other parties, except for the KKE, is “with the punches” in these competitions, it has turned from one end to the other into an immense US-NATO base, with military and political infrastructures which are used to carry out NATO’s wars” said the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE. He emphasized, speaking of Thessaly, that “of course, the region of Thessaly plays a key role in this involvement, which, with the decisions of all governments over time, has officially turned into a bridgehead for NATO crimes against other peoples, making it our country is the aggressor and its people are the target of retaliation”.

He also gave an example, accusing the government of sending weapons to Ukraine, noting that “ammunition and rockets are transported through the city of Tyrnavos, where thousands of people live, and in broad daylight!”. At the same time, he referred to the attitude of the members of the KKE who mobilized on the issue in question, saying that “the unyielding attitude of the members of the KKE and the KNE resulted in the burden of death not passing through Tyrnavos”.

“The trucks retreated under the slogans “NATO Killers go home”, an image that is only a small sample of the power that the people have, if they decide to do so, to put their stamp on the developments, to cancel dangerous plans at their expense” he said characteristically.

Among others, Mr. Koutsoubas, speaking about the internal situation in the Economy, noted that “the country’s involvement in imperialist rivalries and wars, in the trade wars that accompany them, has other kinds of consequences, such as the loss of markets for a number of products that are also grown here in Thessaly, but also the exorbitant production costs in terms of oil, electricity, fertilizers, animal feed”.

Speaking about the situation in agricultural production, he said that ELGA does not compensate the real value of the loss of production and capital from damages and diseases, while he called on the government “to take immediate measures to replace their income”.

For the budget for 2025, Mr. Koutsoubas blamed the government for taxation, noting that “for some, such as the shipowners with literally dozens of tax exemptions, there are “money trees”, just as there is tax-free oil, but not for farmers”.

At the same time, he referred to the role of the banks, blaming all the other parties that governed, saying that “the banks are still tax-exempt with the infamous “deferred tax” that the ND and PASOK voted together a few years ago when they co-governed, with Mr. Androulakis secretary of the party at the time, to be continued by SYRIZA”.

“All of them recapitalized the banks three times, with over 40 billion euros in total from the sweat of the Greek people. And now that the profits of the banks from interest rates and commissions are breaking records, they are pretending to kill ND and PASOK over whether a one-time tax of 5% will be imposed on only a part of these profits”, said the General Secretary KKE and continued: “On the contrary, the budget foresees only “cuts” for the expenses related to the needs of the people.

Among other things, he did not fail to mention the results that Thessaly is experiencing from the floods, accusing the government “of government fiestas and rigged meetings”.

He noted that the problems of Thessaly have not been solved, saying that “15 months have passed and the lack of even the most basic anti-flood works is deafening. Let alone a comprehensive anti-flood planning, in the face of the risk of a new major disaster, which returns with the first rain”.

Among others, Mr. Koutsoubas called on the people of Thessaly to develop their struggles, to strengthen the KKE, noting that “the KKE was and will be at the forefront of these struggles, of this real opposition, utilizing for this purpose and its position in Parliament”.

At this point, he referred to two KKE law proposals in parliament, stressing that one “provides for the real reinstatement of Collective Labor Agreements and the other provides for measures to relieve families with disabled members from debts to banks and a ban on auctioning their first home”.

At the same time, he blamed the other parties, saying that there was no support for these proposals. “We did not expect any other party in Parliament to support them, because we know that these proposals are in conflict with the dominant policy that everyone supports,” he said.

Finally, he referred to the exit proposal of the KKE calling for cooperation “to strengthen the current of questioning the dominant policy, the directions of the EU, NATO, the very goal of capitalist profitability, the anti-people laws, as a whole of this hostile, rotten and corrupt state of capital”.

“We highlight the only realistic way out for the people, the building of another society in Greece, a socialist one, where it will not be the pursuit of profit that will drive everything, thus sacrificing the needs of the people, but it will be precisely the effort to satisfy the social needs to an ever greater extent. This is the prospect for us and our children in the 21st century and not today’s brutality of wars, poverty and exploitation, the rot of this exploitative system. We invite you to walk this path with us”, said G. at the end of his speech. C of the Central Committee of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas.