KKE Secretary of the KKE in the debate on contracts in Parliament
The Secretary General of the KKE Central Committee, Dimitris Koutsoubas In his speech today, in Parliament in the debate on contracts for the 4th Belharra frigate, he noted that this debate “takes place in the aftermath of yesterday’s great strike, where workers, young people, the people overall sent the clear message that their position is only 13.”
“It is, after all, certain that you are not going to stop at 13 hours. It is no coincidence that EU Defense Commissioner, the Commission itself, have rushed to clarify that the needs of the war industry justify the “derogation”, even from the forecasts of the EU Directive 2003/88, which simply talks about 11 hours of rest, and up to 13 hours.
So, because the bill we are discussing today is not at all irrelevant to the demands of yesterday’s strike, “he noted.
Summing up that the prime minister from the TIF “rejected all the demands that would bring true relief of the people, such as the abolition of VAT on essentials, the reinstatement of the 13th and 14th salaries to the public and the pension, because, as he said,” there are no money “”
“But today, the” money trees “not only sprouted, but also threw green leaflets, as we are discussing an equipment program that essentially launches the package of about 30 billion euros by 2036. Money coming out of the pockets of the people, since it is 95% of their taxpayers.
Concerning the supply of the frigate, he noted that it is part of the government’s policy that serves the US -NATO – EU and in no case the country’s sovereign rights.
“You are no longer talking about the defense of the sovereign rights of the country, but of national interests, which in a classically divided society are the interests of the ruling class, the elite, the robbers of the wealth produced by the people,” he said.
“They may have interests, either in the red or in the Pacific Ocean, the people have no interest in bleeding by pouring their blood to foreign interests,” he underlined and referred to the presence of the Greek frigate already in the Red Sea “to keep their backs in the state of the state”.
“In security sequel to shipowners and Israelis, you want to make the Navy to become,” he said.
He called on the government to “deny it if it does not really apply”, a report as well as the KKE’s question to the Parliament “that the aim of the government is the first mission of the” Kimon “frigate, which is expected to be surrendered in December, to be in the Pacific Ocean and to accompany it.”
D. Koutsoubas pointed out that these are the reasons why “the KKE self -evident is also voting against the contract for the 4th Belharra, as we have voted against the first three” and stressed that the KKE’s disagreements with the government and the other parties “are radical, strategic and strategically do it: Equipments, to their own orientation and purpose. “
He said that the other parties “are essentially agreeing and looking for differences in the details”, recalling that “PASOK, SYRIZA. – Having in his parliamentary group, almost all of the MPs of today’s new left- and the supposedly anti-Velopoulos Velopoulos had voted in favor of the first three Belharra in 2022. “
“PASOK and SYRIZA voted for the military spending of the state budget last December and now from what you said you will also vote for Belharra … to understand what” progress “means, what the ND government means essentially,” he added.
“Your imperialist allies can understand you, because in their own perception, progress is the increasingly effective implementation of their own strategy, but it is in opposition to the labor interests and our sovereign rights,” he said, among other things:
“From where and how is an example of progress for the people, a government that supports a murderer state such as Israel, who for years has been committing a real genocide to the detriment of the Palestinian people who is struggling to live in their place? Aren’t you ashamed to tolerate and support this murderer from preventing the transfer of little humanitarian aid to Gaza, symbolic aid, making pirate attacks against the intuition that carries it, such as last night, including the ship of the Greek mission?
Also refuse to recognize an independent Palestinian state, that is, to refuse to apply a unanimous decision of the Greek Parliament?
And now, to have the audacity to present the Trump plan for Gaza, which is exactly buried this perspective, as a “plan for peace”? “
Referring to other issues, D. Koutsoubas asked the question “from where and as where is an example of a government that is trying to hunt this orgy of redemption, such as the OPECEPE scandal and to load it into the biomass and the biomass.”
Noting that “it has nothing to do with this EU of lobby and corruption,” he added, “nevertheless the European prosecutor yesterday showed your finger to your ministers as potential guilty, whom you have acquitted before the investigation has even evolved …
“Where and how is it an example of a government that has been a government that has been running a marathon of the crime of Tempi for two years?” He also denounced the government for “covering up the real causes that led to crime”, but also to “its stance on the Inquiry Committee, and the pre-trial-bias for your ministers and the completion of the interrogation, without examining critical testimonies and evidence. And in blocking the investigation will continue! “
“Why is it obstructed, when in collaboration with justice, you refuse parents of the obvious, to find out exactly what has happened to their children. And throw this candy anymore that “it is important to start the trial quickly” ยป
“It is important to do substantial research and interrogation, to fully investigate all the offenses and the data that make it, to attribute all the categories to all persons, no matter how high they are! This is what the parents of the victims require, this is what the Greek people require, who have been cramming with their mobilizations for the good, “D. Koutsoubas emphasized and concluded:.
“Real progress for the people is what they were told yesterday with their strike. The real progress is to live as they are in the 21st century, based on the achievements of science and technology, not to be slaves in the 21st century. And that will come the day and time when they will impose it with their struggle … be sure of it. “