KKE leader opens party’s 19th Congress

In her speech, Papariga noted that the Congress will give an answer on how the struggle against the “barbarous and antisocial measures’ will be organised, and referred to her party’s proposal for a unilateral write-off of the debt and disengagement of the EU.

Replying to critics of the party, she stressed that the KKE has shouldered the biggest burden of the

Papariga underlined that the “revolutionary change in Greece will be socialist… the driving forces of the revolution will be the working class as a leader, the semi-proletariats, the poor farmers and the most oppressed sections of the middle classes of the cities.”

She also noted that the “struggle against the repercussions of the crisis, averting a bigger bankruptcy of the people and a way out from the crisis to the people’s advantage could, under certain conditions, become the link for organisation of the working classes’ popular counterattack, the springboard for an as mass as possible support of the struggle to topple the rule of the monopolies, combined with the struggle against the imperialistic war and the participation of the Greek bourgeoisie in any way.

Moreover, Papariga sharply attacked the three-party coalition government’s policy as well as main opposition SYRIZA’s positions on the dealing with the crisis. The Congress winds up on Sunday with the election of new party bodies.

Source: ΑΜΝΑ