Alongside the 17th International Meeting of the CPs in Istanbul, the CP in Turkey held an internationalist meeting, which the GS of the CC of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumpas, amongst others addressed.

Below is the speech delivered by the GS of the CC of the KKE:



Dear comrades,

We salute this important internationalist event in Istanbul and convey the warm comradely greetings of the CC of the KKE to the leadership, members and friends of the CP, Turkey to the Turkish working class.

We want to express our complete solidarity with the struggling Turkish people, our support for the families of the victims of the murderous provocation that led to the death and serious injury of hundreds of our people in Ankara, while they were demonstrating for justice and peace.

We salute the communist and workers parties that are taking part in the 17th International Meeting and today’s event organized by our Turkish comrades.

Dear comrades,

The bourgeois parties, both liberal and social-democratic, have their own base, defend capitalism, the exploitative system where power and the means of production are in the hands of the bourgeoisie, they implement policies in favour of the monopolies and against the working class, against the people.

There is also the other side.

We have our own base; our parties express the interests of the working class, the interests of the working people. They struggle every day concerning the worker’s-people’s problems, to develop the class struggle, to gather and prepare working class and popular forces for the overthrow of capitalism, for the construction of the socialist-communist society.

We meet together on this road and we are trying to further develop our joint struggle.

Proletarian internationalism is a priceless weapon.

The KKE and the CP, Turkey are joined together by strong, longstanding internationalist bonds and have developed high level bilateral relations, tested in the difficulties of the class struggle.

The strengthening of the two parties and the reinforcement of the relations between the KKE and the CP, Turkey are of great importance.

We are struggling in a region with major challenges, with intense inter-imperialist competition over the control of the hydrocarbons and their transport routes.

We are struggling in a region which is a strategic hub and passage for the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans.

The bourgeoisies of Greece, Turkey and the other countries in the region more generally are cooperating in order to advance the interests of their own businesses and at the same time are in competition in order to acquire new markets, to form new conditions so that they can increase their profitability.

We are no longer talking about the danger of an imperialist war, war is already here in our region, in Syria, in Libya, in Iraq, in Ukraine where imperialist interventions have taken place in recent years and are still in progress.

Today the developments highlight the danger of a generalized imperialist war, confirming that capitalism, which is in its monopoly-imperialist stage, is becoming continuously more threatening and dangerous for the peoples.

The USA, NATO, the EU are playing the leading role in the dangerous interventions in the region, the inter-imperialist competition is sharpening.

The governments of Greece and Turkey are members of NATO, participate in the imperialist plans and bear major responsibilities.

That is why today the slogan "the people and especially the youth should not shed blood for the interests of capital, of the exploiters." is extremely important.

Reality demonstrates that capitalism creates crises, unemployment, poverty, refugees, immigration and wars.

The exploitative system can not be cured, it is historically out-dated.

Each management formula, liberal or social-democratic, even if it is accompanied by “left” sloganeering has the same starting point and the same outcome. If capitalist ownership and power are not disputed, whatever choice is taken will merely lead to the maintenance of the monopolies’ power, the perpetuation of the exploitation of man by man.

The abolition of exploitation, the satisfaction of the people’s needs, the real people’s sovereignty and the creation of new international relations in favour of the peoples have as their prerequisites the change of class in power, the conquest of power by the working class and its allies, the socialization of the means of production, central planning and peoples control, disengagement from all the imperialist unions.

This goal expresses the workers’-people’s interests.

This is the torch that illuminates our path.

We will strengthen our efforts in this direction in order to develop the class struggle in our countries, to coordinate our common fight against capital and the imperialist unions, for the satisfaction of the people’s needs, for the new socialist-communist society.

And as Nazim Hikmet wrote “We have a centuries-old impetus… We will emerge victorious even if our sacrifices are great.” This rotten world “this pirate ship, will sink - come hell or high water, it will sink. And we will build a world as hopeful, free”

We thank you,

Strength to all of you

02.11.2015