“The optimistic message of these
elections —without, of course, overlooking the overall negative
correlation of forces— is the significant strengthening of the KKE,
which won 7.23%, 427,000 votes, and 26 MPs, taking third place in Attica
again, this time achieving  double-digit percentages in the working
class–popular neighborhoods and an increase in all regions nationwide”,
noted the GS of the CC of KKE.

D. Koutsoumbas referred to the
anti-popular government agenda of New Democracy, which, based on the new
electoral law that will be in force in the June elections, can secure a
government majority in parliament with a smaller electoral percentage.
He raised the question of who will truly be in opposition against the
anti-popular policy of New Democracy, since SYRIZA and PASOK “agree on
the strategic choices of capital and the EU”. “People should have no
illusions. Besides, experience now confirms that social democracy in all
its versions, whether in the form of PASOK or in the form of SYRIZA,
not only cannot provide an answer from the point of view of the people’s
interests, but is constantly an important mainstay for anti-popular
policies”, stated D. Koutsoumbas.

“This has also been proven by the course
of their government: When they passed memoranda one after the other;
when they put forward new anti-popular measures; when they formed a
coalition government with the right —PASOK did so twice with ND and
SYRIZA with ANEL; when prominent figures of the right-wing joined their
lists; when they supported all directions of the EU, NATO and so much
more. This was proven by their compatible programmes presented during
the pre-election period, which serve the same strategic goals and their
common choices.

After all, that is why the discussion
that took place before 21 May revolved around the potential composition
and coalitions of the next government and of course not around what it
would implement and for whom.

That is why PASOK was open to form a
coalition government either with ND or SYRIZA. And today it is again
making itself available, based on its cadres’ statements, in the case
that ND fails to form a single-party government.

It is this policy that leads to
disappointment and to the conservative turn of a part of the people, to
the conviction that there is no alternative. It is this policy that,
eventually painted the map blue (TN: the party colour of New Democracy) in the recent elections.

SYRIZA and PASOK will in fact take over the “ministries of the opposition” in the next anti-popular government of New Democracy.

Now they are asking for the people’s support so that the New Democracy government  is not omnipotent.

We respond that no bourgeois government,
no matter how many MPs it has, is  omnipotent when faced with a
labour–popular movement, with a strong communist party!

And in this country there is the
Communist Party of Greece, which received 7.23% in the May elections and
can emerge stronger in the next ones.

A strong KKE means a strong labour
movement and strong people to put obstacles and delay anti-popular
plans, even to achieve some gains.”

On the “fall of the left”

“We respond in the same way as the
leftists, the progressive people who turned their backs on them and
supported the KKE. The KKE struggled in practice against the policies of
Mitsotakis’ government and its forces do not add up to those who voted
for dozens of its anti-popular laws.

You cannot add up those who broke the
bans placed under the pretext of the pandemic with those who backed them
and said that they would supposedly “settle accounts later”.

You cannot add up those who voted
against the dangerous NATO enlargement  with those who voted for it and
applauded Zelenksiy and the Nazis of the Azov Battalion in the Greek
Parliament.

You cannot add up those who fought to
prevent workplaces from being turned into “special economic zones” with
no rights for workers with those who voted for the laws of A. 
Georgiades, resulting today in one dead and two crippled workers in the
Perama Ship Repair Zone. That is the real content of the growth promised
by New Democracy and supported by the other parties. Once again,
profits are drenched in the workers’ blood!

It is telling that a large part of the
Collective Labour Agreement of workers in the Perama Ship Repair Zone
concerns health and safety measures. Neither the SYRIZA government nor
the ND government put this collective agreement into effect.

You cannot add up those who struggled
against fascism and Golden Dawn with those who claim that the voters of
Golden Dawn are misled people, aiming to lure their votes, like Tsipras,
Konstantopoulou [TN: former SYRIZA MP and Speaker of the Parliament,
now head of the party called Plefsi Eleftherias (2.89%)] and Varoufakis
[TN: former SYRIZA minister and now head of the MeRA25 party (2.63%)].”

The only vote that matters is the one casted in favour of the KKE

This has been confirmed all the past
years by its action in parliament and, above all, by its struggle on the
side of the people and the youth.

That is why the KKE must now be further strengthened.

Even by workers who previously did not take the step to vote for it but may now change their minds.

Because the KKE:

– Is the only party that is a consistent
opponent of this policy, because faced with the dilemma “the profits of
the few or the lives of the many?” clearly answers “the lives of the
many against the profits of the few”.

– Is the only party that is in conflict with the system, the EU, the business groups that the other parties serve.

– Is the only party that is not bound by the system and is, therefore, the only choice against it.

– Is the only party that struggles to
change the negative correlation of forces, that has a programme of
power–governance which declares that the people must take their fate in
their own hands and that they must not pin their hopes on would-be
saviours.

Today, everyone needs to think and find the answer to the following questions:

– Who will struggle for collective
labour agreements at workplaces, factories, offices and companies when
the employers are asking the workers to make more sacrifices?

– Who will struggle in the neighbourhoods when popular families risk losing their homes to the vultures of funds and banks?

– Who will confront the government when
it asks for new sacrifices to shift the burdens of a possible new crisis
onto the people in order to save the business groups and the banks once
again?

– Who will confront the new wave of
austerity and further cuts in social spending in the field of education,
health and welfare in the name of primary surpluses?

– Who will struggle at the roadblocks at
the side of the toiling farmers and the self-employed tradesmen
fighting for their survival?

– Who will struggle at the side of
artists and intellectuals, i.e. art workers struggling for the cultural
uplift of the country, for the great steps forward?

– Who will prevent the reactionary plans
of New Democracy, for example the constitutional revision concerning
Article 16, when even during the pre-election period SYRIZA and PASOK
are open to such a possibility?

– Who will be at the forefront of the
struggle against the establishment of private universities and the
further commercialization of health care etc.?

– Who will oppose the imperialist
involvement in Ukraine at the side of NATO that is taking on new and
dangerous dimensions, with the victims being once again our people and
the youth?

– Who will oppose the new dangerous
developments that are being cooked up concerning Greek-Turkish
relations, under the umbrella of the USA and NATO and at the expense of
our sovereign rights?

– Who will be at the forefront of the
struggle to pave the way for the people to become the protagonists of
the developments, to take power, with a crystal clear pro-workers and
pro-people programme based on central scientific planning of the economy
and services, and the direct participation and workers’–people’s
control, in a new society that will overthrow the current decay and
barbarity?

The answer to all the above is obvious: the KKE and its MPs.

The more KKE MPs, the stronger the struggles that we all have to fight together.

We have taken a step forward, think what will happen if we take a leap forward.

Let’s go for it. We can do it!  

We continue in a dynamic way. We are not complacent with what we have achieved so far.

We know that many more people are now
turning their attention to and put their trust in the KKE. We must live
up to their expectations.

Let’s fight this battle with realism and optimism so that on 26 June the KKE and the people will emerge even stronger.

Hope lies in a strong KKE!”

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