With mass gatherings and rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki, the Greek Committee for International Peace and Detente (EEDYE) honors the victims of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki nuclear crime.
In the afternoon of August 9th, a political event have been scheduled in the shadow of the Athens Acropolis, marking the 71th anniversary of the imperialist crime in Japan. The major slogan of the event is "To condemn the US crime in Hiroshima-Nagasaki" and "Condemn the Imperialist Wars and Intervention". A similar event will take place in Thessaloniki's city center.
On the occasion of the 71 years since the dropping of the atomic bombs in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6-8 August 1945), the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued the following statement:
This
year marks the 71th anniversary of the US imperialist
crime in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where hundreds of people lost their
lives from the atomic bombs, while thousands continue to die every
year because of radiation consequences.
Today,
71 years later, in the soil of capitalist crisis the antagonisms
between states and monopolies are sharpening for the distribution of
markets and natural resources; especially in our broader region, the
danger of a generalized war with Greece's involution is growing. A
proof of that is the interventions, the dozens of local and regional
wars with people being the victims and with thousands refugees and
uprooted (people). What is emerging is the need for the working-class
movement to have a steadily orientation against the imperialist war
and the causes which create it.
The
SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government, like the previous governments,
readily and actively participates in all the dangerous plans of the
US, NATO, EU which, in the framework of their competition with Russia
can cause a real holocaust for Europe's people and broader. (The
government) supported the recent NATO decisions, the deepening of the
collaboration with the imperialist EU, which under the pretext of
“peace” and “security”, are seeking the “security” of the
Euro-American monopolies against the peoples' rights.
Capitalism
isn't humanized, cannot give solutions to the basic problems of the
people, cannot secure peace for them. The imperialist wars will exist
as long as the power is in the hands of the capitalists.
The
disengagement from NATO and all imperialist organisations, the
struggle for the defense of the borders and the sovereign rights of
Greece, for the disengagement from imperialist wars and interventions
is inseparable with the struggle for the overthrow of Capital's
power, with the people being dominant under their own power.
(Translation: In Defense of Communism).
