Originally posted at: http://www.focusonsocialism.ca/random.asp?ID=471
May 26, 2010
Posted on MySpace Gus Hall Discussion Club by the
Gus Hall Action Club:
May 22, 2010 6:48 PM:
I
just recently received this important e-mail: "Please give this the widest circulation and distribution possible. Make into
leaflets and distribute widely. Post to blogs and on list serves, FaceBook,
MySpace, etc. Discuss at Club meetings and union meetings. Please distribute to
your e-mail lists. Everyone has a right to read and discuss this most important
message from the KKE. Those delegates in attendance at the CPUSA National Convention now in progress
in New York should use Robert’s Rules of Order and call for the suspension of
the rules of the convention for the purpose of discussing this Message from the
KKE. Note: This is the link to PAME, the All Workers’ Militant Front, as mentioned
below.:
The CPUSA should be fulfilling its responsibility for international solidarity
and working class unity by bringing a delegation from the KKE and PAME on tour
in the United States in order to build support against our common enemies on
Wall Street and the other centers of capital. We need to know why Sam Webb and the National Board of the CPUSA have been
suppressing this message which they received on May 15, 2010. This Message from
the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) should have been released to the entire
membership of the CPUSA, the trade union movement and the public at the time it
was received. It should have been available on the CPUSA website, in the
People’s Weekly World and Political Affairs as well as made available to the
media--- including to C-Span listeners as part of Sam Webb’s “Main Report” to
the Convention which would have been more appropriate than his stupid jokes that
were nothing but a distraction from important issues affecting working peoples’
lives. There needs to be a thorough discussion as part of the CPUSA National Convention
as to what is going to be done here in the United States in the way of
solidarity with the Greek working class fighting to maintain their rights and
livelihoods and how the austerity measures capital is trying to shove down the
throats of Greek workers is part of capital’s drive to undermine living
standards of working people here in the United States and workers all over the
world. Now is the time to vigorously speak up against Sam Webb and the revisionists who
have hi-jacked our Party in the name of “new” and “change” and of all things, in
the name of “democracy” as they suppress this Message from the KKE and refuse to
distribute this Message to all Party members, friends and the trade union
movement here in the United States--- what kind of “democracy” is this? Alan L. Maki, Co-Chair, Lake-of-the-Woods Communist Club View the Greetings read out at the
CPUSA Convention to see the sections of the KKE
greetings which was omitted when read to the convention delegates (Start Video at 46min
mark) - FOS e-Bulletin Editor
Message to the National Committee of CPUSA on the Occasion of the
CPUSA 29th National Convention
Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
May 13, 2010
Communist Party USA,
National Committee,
New York
Athens, Thursday, 13 May 2010
Dear comrades
We would like to thank you for the information regarding your
29th party convention and to extend our greetings to the delegates. Our parties
have met in the past in common struggles for workers’ rights, in the struggle
against anti-communism, for the defense of socialism and the Soviet Union, for
the unity of the communist movement on the basis of our revolutionary principles
and traditions.
We are following as closely as we can the developments in the
USA, the escalation of the aggression of US imperialism which lately has become
quite obvious. The US is striving to respond to the trend of losing ground
within the framework of the imperialist system by inciting regional tensions and
conflicts, so that it can take advantage of its political and military supremacy
in order to safeguard its interests and maintain its spheres of influence.
In Greece, the working class and the popular strata are facing a
barbaric attack, on the pretext of the economic crisis; an attack which has been
jointly unleashed by the social democratic PASOK government, the EU and the IMF,
with the assistance of the conservative ND party and the open support of the
nationalist LAOS party.
The remarkable resistance presented by the labor and popular
movement is spearheaded by KKE which continually strives to reveal the real
cause of the crisis, the sharpening of the basic contradictions of capitalism.
Without the consistent exposure of the compromised and discredited in the eyes
of the workers trade union leaderships of GSEE and ADEDY (the national
confederations of the private and public sector respectively), without the
decisive contribution of PAME (All Workers’ Militant Front), the national trade
union front comprised of class oriented Federations, trade unions, labor centers
and trade unionists, the labor movement in our country would have been disarmed,
unprepared, and unable to fight back.
KKE calls upon the working class, the
self-employed, the poor farmers, and the youth to engage in even stronger, more
massive and organized actions in order to stave off the onslaught and pave the
way for a different path of development. There can be no way other than the
nationalization of the monopolies. The working class must take possession of the
concentrated means of production and mobilize them with central planning and
popular participation. This presupposes a struggle aiming for people’s power,
for socialism-communism.
The fightback against anti-communism, the adamant defense of the
historical contribution of the Soviet Union and socialist construction in the
20th century, of the identity and revolutionary traditions of the communist
movement, take on particular importance today.
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