18.11.2020

Solidarity with the KKE

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the brutal police attack on the peaceful march organised by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) commemorating the 47th anniversary of the Polytechnic and Athens workers' uprising against the military junta. It expresses its solidarity and stands with the KKE in its antiimperialist, anti-capitalist, actions.

The demands raised during the Polytechnic uprising, ‘USA out - NATO out’ and ‘bread, education, freedom’, also express the contemporary struggles of the people against Greece's involvement in US-NATO imperialist plans, as well as the workers' and people's demands for rights to work, education, health, individual and trade union freedoms.

On the noon of November 17 in Athens, as soon as the march led by the General Secretary of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas reached the US embassy the police unleashed an unprovoked attack. Com Koutsoumbas, many of the Party’s members of the Parliament and leaders, trade union activists were brutally attacked and arrested.

The CPI(M) condemns this act of police brutality and expresses it’s solidarity with the people of Greece, who are resisting the authoritarian, anti-democratic actions of their government.

Central Committee

Communist Party of India (Marxist)