On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued the following statement:
"Fifty-one years after the proclamation by the UN, with the
decisive contribution of the Soviet Union, of the 21st
of March as the International Day against Racial Discrimination, the
capitalist world, in the USA, the EU, in Greece, is showing more and
more clearly its inhuman character against refugees and immigrants,
to the victims of imperialist wars and capitalist exploitation.
In
Greece, one year has been completed since the implementation of the
EU-Turkey agreement which was emerged from the villainous bazaar of
the EU with Turkey's ruling class. The SYRIZA-ANEL government, which
celebrated the agreement, is trying with claws and teeth to implement
it, being indifferent to the miserable conditions in the refugee
structures of the islands as well as for the consequences for the
inhabitants from the double entrapment that has been formed in the
Aegean islands. The government, with the support of all bourgeois
parties, actively participates in all the imperialist plans and
interventions which are responsible for the large refugee and
immigration waves. The government brought NATO's ships in the Aegean,
supposedly for the limitation of refugee and immigrants. It has
created conditions for long or permanent entrapment in the country,
in camps and infrastructures given to various mechanisms and NGOs. It
agrees with the reinstatement of the Dublin Regulation which will
mean a new wave of “refugees return”, this time from EU
countries.
With
its policy, but also with the handling of issues such as the
integration of refugee children to the education system, it “fed”
the Nazi criminals of Golden Dawn and other reactionary forces to
organise bully attacks against refugees and economic migrants, to
turn against children, to poison the minds and the consciences of
people. With the participation of the nazi and racist Golden Dawn's
MPs in the governmental fiestas in Kastelorizo, with the statements
of SYRIZA cadres, they actually “launder” the criminal Golden
Dawn thus preparing her to play a more “serious” role as the
system's long arm against the labor and popular movement, against
local and foreign workers.
The
increase in the number of refugees and immigrants is exploited by the
racist, nationalist parties which aim to disorient the workers
regarding the causes of their lives' deterioration. At the same time,
the increase of these parties' influence is exploited for the
formation of new fraudulent dilemmas, to hide the fact that racism
and fascism come out from the same capitalist “womb” like all the
other bourgeois parties, the parties of cosmopolitanism. Thus, the
Netherlands of the liberal, pro-European bourgeois politician
Mr.Rutte, within a year, accepted just 939 refugees- less than the ¼
of the minimum number of refugees it had committed to accept within
the EU migration process. The EU switches racism with
cosmopolitanism, opens and closes the borders depending on her
geopolitical interests and the needs of the capitalists.
The
communists, through their action in the trade unions, the bodies of
the popular movement, will steadfastly continue to fight, in
practice, against racism and xenophobia. For:
The
unlocking of the refugees and immigrants from Greece and the
islands.
Human
living conditions in the refugee camps and infrastructures.
Inclusion
of all children of refugees and immigrants in the public structures
of education.
Equal
labour and social rights for the working refugees and immigrants.
Isolation
of fascists and racists.
Organizing
of people's struggle against the imperialist war and capitalist
exploitation."
Source: 902.gr / Translation: In Defense of Communism.
Source: 902.gr / Translation: In Defense of Communism.
