Closing Remarks by the Communist Party of Greece

Closing by the KKE at the hybrid conference of the ECA

Concluding today’s meeting of the ECAparties, we can positively assess our work today.

Of course we know that the level of development, the mobilisation potential, the level of organisation, theachievements of the labor-trade union movement in each European country differs, as do the experiences of each CP, which depend on the possibilities and conditions in which it acts, etc.

However, we believe that we as ECA were right to go ahead with today’s meeting, because there are also many common issues that all the CPs are facing, such as the attack on the working class and throughout Europe by bourgeois governments of all hues, right-wing and social-democratic. An attack that is unfolding under the conditions of intensifying inter-imperialist rivalries, even within the Euro-Atlantic bloc, and when the bourgeois classes of Europe are putting forward the planning of the so-called “military self-sufficiency”, the war industry, which practically means a new attack on the social rights and living standards of the workers throughout Europe. It is a policy that is developed alongside the intensification of anti-communism and the strengthening of the repressive mechanisms of the bourgeois state.

Based on the above, we believe that the exchange of views and experiences that we had here today was very useful and we warmly thank our fellow trade unionists, who have brought living experience that can enrich our action.

Today’s conference also shows something else. It shows the character of the ECA parties, which are oriented towards the development of the class struggle; which do not lose sight of seeking the support of the working class, of developing its struggles.

As communists, we want to be at the forefront of organizing the struggles of the working class in the great fronts of struggle that concern all the problems of the working class and the popular strata. The struggles of the workers that put obstacles in the strategy that the bourgeois classes have drawn up to increase the profitability of big capital. We fight to prevent reactionary measures, to achieve gains that will improve the lives of the working people and at the same time to show that this exploitative capitalist system that serves the profits of the monopolies cannot be healed and must be overthrown through the struggle of the working class and other popular strata to pave the way for the construction of the new socialist-communist society.

We, the parties of the ECA, stand in class and at the same time internationalist positions against the imperialist war, the imperialist alliances like the EU and NATO, the American bases and the criminal adventurist plans of the bourgeoisie, which bleed the working class all over the world for the profits of the capitalists.

We, the CPs of ECA, do not forget the unforgettable slogan of the Communist Manifesto in the development of our action to organize and strengthen the struggle of the working people of Europe in the coming struggles: “Proletarians of all countries, unite!”