Thousands gathered in Greece for 27th Anti-Imperialist Camp

The 27th Anti-Imperialist Camp of KNE took place on July 6-8 under the slogan 'Join us to the struggle against the system that bears poverty, wars, refugees!'
Friday, 13 July 2018 20:29

The Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) organised its '27th Anti-Imperialist Camp' on July 6-8 near the city of Patras, Alissos under the slogan "Join us to the struggle against the system that bears poverty, wars, refugees!" with the participation of thousands of young people from all around Greece.

Communist Youth Front of Italy (FGC), Communist Youth Union of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and Communist Youth of Turkey (TKG) were the communist youth organisations from neighbouring countries that sent representatives.

Accompanied by anti-imperialist slogans and slogans honouring the century-long struggle of the KKE and 50 years since the foundation of the KNE, General Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece Dimitris Koutsoumbas took the floor on July 6.

Koutsoumbas denounced the plans to reinstall in Greece nuclear weapons, namely in the air-base of Araxos near Patras, probably the 50 US nuclear warheads that are currently situated in İncirlik air-base in Turkey.

Criticizing the governmental strategy of "geostrategic upgrading of the country" with further military installations, Koutsoumbas declared that this new strategy of the SYRIZA-ANEL government has nothing to do with upgrading the interests and the rights of the peoples, with peace, solidarity and friendship of the peoples, "but has all to do with the geostrategic upgrading of the bourgeois class of Greece and consequently the upgrading of all the dangers and of bigger implications in imperialist wars, interventions and confrontations."

He ended his speech by calling upon the youth for drawing conclusions and struggling for workers’ power, strengthening the solidarity and the common action of the peoples against the capitalists and their interstate alliances.
 
In the second day of the camp, delegates from neighbour communist youth organizations took the floor. On behalf of the TKG, İlayda Fidan took the floor.

"Turkey and Greece are standing on a very sensitive point for imperialism. Imperialism eventually brings war and the only force that is able to face and even prevent this is the working class. We are struggling for organising a safe future where the youth will live without the dangers of unemployment or imperialist wars, which is namely socialism. We believe that the Aegean will be remembered in the future as peaceful and beautiful geography but not as a place of belligerent conflicts and refugee hotspots. Our historical responsibility is to make this real.
Long live internationalist solidarity! Long live socialism-communism!" she said.