During the debate, the MPs of the KKE lambasted the government’s draft budget, highlighting its anti-labour and class character in favour of businessmen, and demanded increases in wages and pensions and the abolition of anti-popular taxes.
They also denounced the government for the country’s involvement in the imperialist war in Ukraine and the massacre of the Palestinian people by Israel.
At the same time, militant workers’ rallies against the new anti-popular budget were held in Athens, Thessaloniki and dozens of other Greek cities on Friday 15 December.
The GS of the CC of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, took part in the rally outside the Greek parliament in Athens and made the following statement:
“The struggle against the anti-popular budget is not only being waged inside the parliament; the real struggle is being waged in the workplaces, in the universities, in the neighbourhoods, in the streets, and here tonight inSyntagma square. This is where the people’s consciousness and the correlation of forces can be changed, and where the just cause is fought for the income and the tax relief of the workers and the self-employed, for the labour rights of our fellow human beings, for public health and welfare, for education, for all the contemporary needs of the people. There is only one dilemma: it is either their profits or our lives.”
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