The KKE
wishes a good and militant year to the working people, the unemployed
and self-employed ones, the poor farmers, the young people and the
women of the popular strata, to the refugees and immigrants, who live
or remain trapped in our country.
The new year
2017, which starts with new burdens for our people, can leave a
strong imprint on the effort for the recasting of the labour
movement, building of the social alliance, strengthening of the KKE,
in order to pave the way for a better future for our people.
The
SYRIZA-ANEL government, as well as the other parties of the system,
despite their disagreements for the governmental chair, cultivate to
the people the false explectation that the recovery of the capitalist
economy will supposedly put an end to the people's sacrifices, will
stop the deterioration process of his life.
The reality
is completely different. Even if there is some kind of recovery, it
will be for the profits of the few, it will be uncertain, because the
developments themselves in the global and european economy are
inauspicious. Above all, it will be a recovery which not only will
not replenish the huge losses for the people, but will be accompanied
by new masures, “bloody” surpluses, sustained “cutters” of
working-peoples' rights.
Capitalism
does not give birth only to crises, poverty and unemployment, but
also wars. The developments in the broader region, the competitions
among powerful states and regional powers for the raw materials and
the transportation roads, bring the threat of a more generalized war
closer.
The
SYRIZA-ANEL government actively participates in all NATO plans. Along
with the other bourgeois political forces, it reassures the Greek
people that the participation of Greece in NATO consists a factor of
“peace and security in the region”. It has legitimized the
presence of NATO, which does not recognize the maritime borders and
encourages the aggressive stratety of Turkey, in the Aegean Sea. At
the same time, in the unsolved for 42 years problem of
invasion-occupation of Cyprus they propose as a solution the de facto
partition, through a new “Annan” plan.
Against this
situation, the KKE gives all its forces in order to strengthen the
working-people's struggle and solidarity, for a real relief of the
people, recover of losses, satisfaction of the contemporary needs.
It prepares
its 20th Congress, which will be held in Spring 2017, with
the ambition to become more powerful, more capable towards the
development of the working-people's movement and the promotion of the
alliance of the popular strata in a direction of rupture and
overthrow against the capitalist system. This is even more urgent in
the current circumstances, when everything seems immovable or move
slowly.
Today there
is much experience in the people and more evidence for them to see
that no government which serves the capitalist path of development
can put a end to the major impasses.
What is
needed is that the popular struggle for the acute problems must look
forward, must not be trapped in the “clashing rocks” of the
governmental change of antipeople governments and of a utopian,
supposedly pro-people, management of the system. For the maturation
of thinking, of discussion, of reflection regarding the fact that the
current exploitative system, which, despite the achievements of
science and technology, forces people to live in barbarity, cannot be
the future of humanity.
The
capitalist ownership and power, the economy of anarchism and profit
for the few, must be replaced by the social ownership of the
concentrated means of production, the scientific central planning of
the economy, the production for the satisfaction of contemporary
needs.
With the
weight of this responsibility, the KKE continues even more decisively
in order to respond successfully to the tasks of the time, for the
cause of Socialism, which today, 100 years since the “storm to the
sky”- the Great Socialist October Revolution- is timely more than
ever.
Source: Rizospastis / Translation: In Defense of Communism.
