The militant commemoration of the 51st anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic Uprising against the US-backed junta culminated once again this year with the mass anti-imperialist march to the US Embassy in Athens on Sunday 17 November and similar events all over the country.
Thousands of people participated in the bloc of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) expressing their solidarity with the people of Palestine and demanded that the massacre in Gaza and Greece’s involvement in imperialist plans be stopped.
Thousands of people participated in the bloc of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) expressing their solidarity with the people of Palestine and demanded that the massacre in Gaza and Greece’s involvement in imperialist plans be stopped.
In a statement to reporters, the General Secretary of the CC of the KKE Dimitris Koutsoumbas pointed out:
"The slogans of the Polytechnic for "bread, education, freedom", "USA and NATO, out of Greece" are current. Today they are translated into the daily struggle of the Greek people, the Greek youth, for wage increases, for collective labor contracts, against high prices. Against state repression and the violence of the government and its mechanisms. They are in the fight against the government's anti-educational policy, to abolish all anti-labor - anti-people laws. They translate into messages against the imperialist war, the US-EU-NATO alliance, for freedom in Palestine. Fifty one years later we are here and we continue!"
"The slogans of the Polytechnic for "bread, education, freedom", "USA and NATO, out of Greece" are current. Today they are translated into the daily struggle of the Greek people, the Greek youth, for wage increases, for collective labor contracts, against high prices. Against state repression and the violence of the government and its mechanisms. They are in the fight against the government's anti-educational policy, to abolish all anti-labor - anti-people laws. They translate into messages against the imperialist war, the US-EU-NATO alliance, for freedom in Palestine. Fifty one years later we are here and we continue!"
