Regarding the ongoing developments on the Macedonia name dispute and the negotiations between Greece and FYROM, the Communist Party of Greece issued the following pamphlet-statement.
“The
arsonists of the Balkans- NATO, USA, EU- do not want to give a
solution for the people's benefit!
The
KKE calls the Greek people, who are genuinely concerned about the
developments on the FYROM issue, must see the essence of the problem,
the “forest” and not the “tree”. They must overcome the
disorientation and the false dividing lines that both the government
as well those powers who invest on nationalism and irredentism are
cultivating.
Both sides, regardless of their placement, highlight the name as a key issue thus concealing the dangerous scene that is being set-up. They hide their agreement with NATO's umbrella, under which the negotiations are being conducted, aiming at the accession of the neighboring country to NATO.
The
developments aren't exclusively about the Greece-FYROM relations.
They consist part of the overall plans that are being promoted by
NATO, the US and the EU in order to strengthen their
economic-political-military presence in the Western Balkans and the
broader region.
To
become (more) strengthened in the fierce competition with other
powers, such as Russia, China, focusing on the control of the energy
sources and roads, of the market shares.
That
is why NATO's staff, the governments of Greece and FYROM, care so
much. That is why the NATO Summit in July has been set as the
deadline for reaching an agreement.
The
developments foreshadow new hardships for the people!
It
is an unhistorical mockery that the accession of these countries in
NATO-EU will ensure peace and stability, that will prevent dangers to
our country.
We
must not forget that NATO forces were the ones that:
- Led the dissolution of the united Yugoslavia and the creation of the problem.
- Reformulated the maps of the Balkans, crated states-protectorates in order to promote their interests.
- Utilize existing and non-existing minority issues, inciting nationalisms and irredentisms in order to “divide” the people.
The
Greek-Turkish relations prove that NATO membership not only does not
guarantee peace and territorial integrity, but instead it consists a
factor of problems' intensification and questioning of sovereign
rights.
The
very course of the other Balkan countries towards NATO and the EU
coexists with border disputes, violations of sovereign rights and
even stirring of non-existing minority issues.
Even
if there is a compromise, it is certain that this will be fragile and
when the correlation (of forces) changes, new agreements and
geopolitical balances will be sought, either by war or with the gun
at the people's head.
The
“nomenclature” conceals the imperialist plans, the real problems.
Since
1992, when the issue of the neighboring country's name was raised,
after the dissolution of the former united Yugoslavia, the KKE had
been placed by principle, in order to promote the friendship between
the people, against the plans of the imperialists and the change of
borders in the region.
It
stood against the dominant nationalist trend that all the other
political parties were cultivating.
Among
these parties was Synaspismos (later SYRIZA) which, alongside New
Democracy and PASOK, was signing joint communiqués attacking the KKE
and fueling the anticommunist hysteria.
The
KKE bases its positions on the undisputed fact that Macedonia is a
large geographic region which has been shared between four Balkan
countries on the basis of the Treaty of Bucharest, signed by
Venizelos in 1913. Then, they took: Greece 51%, Serbia 39% (FYROM),
Bulgaria 9,5% and Albania 0,5%.
The
questioning of this reality, with the slogan “Macedonia is only
Greek”- meaning the whole geographic region of Macedonia- opens the
bags of Aeolus. It feeds nationalism and irredentism. It gives a push
to those who covet a revision of International Treaties, such as
Turkey's ruling class which questions the Treaty of Lausanne. This is
how the wick will be lit in the barracks of the Balkans.
The
KKE considers that the most signficant issue is the safeguarding of
the relations of peaceful co-operation, the safeguarding of the
inviolability of the borders of the two countries, the change of the
neighboring country's Constitution and the avoidance of every
irredentist propaganda.
This
the only way to cancel the whole basis that supports the unhistorical
theory about a “Macedonian nation”. This is the only way to
safeguard the exclusively geographic determination, if the name of
the neighboring country will finally include the term “Macedonia”
or any derivative of it.
The
SYRIZA-ANEL government has assumed a role of “flag-bearer” for
NATO.
The
government, through the so-called “geostrategic upgrading”
policy, promotes the participation of the Greek capital in the loot
that is taking place in the region. This is the other side of the
antipeople policy.
The
Greek bourgeois class expects to recover stronger in the Balkans, to
win positions in hierarchical sectors, being benefited from the
accession of these countries to the EU and NATO.
That
is why it [the government] is willling to close issues on behalf of
the capital, no matter if it opens dangerous windows for the Greek
people and the other people of the region.
No
to the poison of homeland mongering and capital's cosmopolitanism.
The
KKE calls the people to isolate those nationalist, fascist powers
which exploit their legitimate concern in order to sow the poison of
nationalism and homeland mongering. Among them is the criminal Golden
Dawn, the political descendant of nazism, during the period of which
the Greek part of Macedonia was under bulgarian occupation.
New
Democracy and the other parties bear enormous responsibility, because
with their stance they are “fishing in the burred waters” of
nationalism thus acquiting such forces. At the same time they give
the chance to the government to present the dangerous euroatlantic
plans with the mantle of “progressivity”.
The
people can walk their own promising road.
The
common struggle and solidarity are their weapon against the plans of
the capital and imperialists.
The
developments impose vigilance, intensification of the workers-people
struggle and internationalist solidarity, against imperialist
interventions and wars. This struggle is inseparably connected with
the struggle for the people's modern rights. It is tied to the
struggle against all imperialist alliances, such as NATO and the EU,
against the capitalist exploitative system itself and the power of
the capital”.
Source: 902.gr / Translation: In Defense of Communism.
