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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-07-05
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[01] KKE leader addresses youth
[01] KKE leader addresses youth
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) General Secretary Aleka Papariga
addressed the 35th KNE-ODIGITIS festival organised by KKE's youth group
in Piraeus on Saturday night, where she stressed the need to resist the
dictates of the establishment as represented by the two main parties.
"Submission and compliance, or counter-attack and opposition? This is
the real political and ethical question that stands before us in our
daily struggle against the rising problems, at ballot boxes today and
tomorrow," Papariga said.
According to KKE's leader, all mechanisms and organisations of the
bourgeois political system were geared toward preventing the working
classes and young people from considering this question. She accused
ruling New Democracy and main opposition PASOK, as well as the
newly-emergent Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) of beginning a
"brainwashing campaign" for the supposed cleansing of political life
that was actually a front for a imposing a system of complete and
totalitarian control on the activities of political parties, even those
that were openly supportive of the system.
"The collateral goal is to prevent through laws and Maniadakis-type
orders the activity of any radical social and political forces,
especially KKE," she claimed.
Papariga went on to say that the main source of funding for KKE were
the contributions paid by party members and the contributions of
friends and supporters of the party, including workers, ordinary
citizens and bodies "that understand the need for KKE's existence, for
its action, independent of whether they agree with us on everything."
"Our activities to acquire financial means must and are politically
independent of business, we do not subjugate our policy to economic
gain," she stressed.
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