“We must
not allow the Thessaloniki port to become another base of death by
the US-NATO imperialists” is the major slogan of a statement issued
by the Central Macedonia Party Organisation of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), on the occasion of the recent visit of the US
ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in the city.
The US diplomat had visited the port (Greece's second largest) in order to inspect the departure of the 4th US Airborne Brigade.
The US diplomat had visited the port (Greece's second largest) in order to inspect the departure of the 4th US Airborne Brigade.
In its statement, the KKE writes among other things: “It took just a few
days for the US ambassador himself to confirm that the port of
Thessaloniki has been transformed, not only into a base of reception
but also a base of US military material, whenever the imperialists
need it. He reminded once again that this is part of the “benefits
of the Prespes Agreement”, confirming the fact that the deal was
intended to strengthen even further the US and NATO influence in the
Balkan region”.
The
statement slams the government of SYRIZA, as well as the other
bourgeois parties, for accepting and promoting this situation:
“The 'best
preferred partner' (see SYRIZA government) is doing everything in its
power to prove that it is the best promoter of the US in the Balkans
and the broader region and there is no doubt on that. Of course, the
known willing ones rush in every visit of the US ambassador. This
time it was governor Ap. Tzitzikostas who gives his “best self”
every time he meets the US ambassador – and he meets him very often
recently. There are, of course, those who don't say a word about the
transformation of the Thessaloniki port into a US-NATO base. Golden
Dawn and other nationalists keep their mouth shut, because they are
afraid of their bosses who hold the highest esteem for NATO and the
USA”.
The KKE's
statement points out that the transformation of Greece into a huge
US-NATO basis of interventions and wars is a common aim of all the
bourgeois political powers. “The experience has shown that NATO and
the EU cannot guarantee the borders and sovereign rights of our
country. On the contrary they consist factors of destabilization and
war incidents”.
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| Ambassador G.Pyatt inspecting the US military material at the port of Thessaloniki (Photo: 902.gr). |
The Central
Macedonia Party Organisation of the KKE mentions the wars of NATO and
the USA in Yugoslavia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and calls
the region's workers and youth to join the anti-imperialist struggle
against the presence of the euroatlantic murderers in the city's
port. It writes:
“Today's
intervention of the US ambassador at the Thessaloniki Port consists
another opportunity for all the honest people of labour, who feel
left and progressive, to overcome their dilemmas and join the
struggle by the side of the KKE, so that we can make the difference
that our country and people need. To stand by the side of the KKE in
order to strengthen the struggle against the imperialist war. So that
Greece will not be used as a foothold of the imperialists. So that
the base of Souda will shut down and the Greek soldiers will return from missions abroad. To strengthen the struggle for the disengagement from NATO and the EU".
The KKE calls the workers, the people of the city, the youth, to fight against the transformation of the port of Thessaloniki into another basis of death for US-NATO imperialists.
