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| Twenty years after the overthrow of socialism in the Soviet Union and the other countries of central and eastern Europe, the largest international meeting of communist parties will take place in Athens. More than a hundred delegates, representing eighty-three communist and workers’ parties from sixty-four countries, took part in the proceedings of the 13th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, hosted by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), which took place in Athens on 9–11 December. The International Meetings of Communist Parties were initiated by the KKE thirteen years ago and met a large and positive response from dozens of communist parties, which understand the necessity for exchanging views, discussing developments and the duties they face, exchanging experience, and also co-ordinating their activity. These annual gatherings have become an important international event for the communist movement. They are no longer organised by a single party but by a working group of communist parties. Besides Athens, where they took place for seven consecutive years, they have been held in Lisbon (Portugal), Minsk (Belarus), São Paulo (Brasil), New Delhi (India), and Tshwane (South Africa). This year, after a “trip” to five countries and four continents, it returns to Athens. The Communist Party of Ireland was represented in Athens by Eugene McCartan, general secretary. A recognition of the significance of the workers’ and people’s struggles that have been developed over recent years by the KKE, the All-Workers’ Militant Front (PAME) and the other people’s rallies played an important role in this decision. The slogan of the KKE at the Acropolis in May 2010, which called on the people to rise up, has become a symbol for the struggles that followed and continue up to the present in Greece and in other countries and that give hope and inspiration to the communists and the peoples who struggle. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Socialism is the future! The international situation and the experience of the communists twenty years after the counter-revolution in the USSR. The tasks for the development of the class struggle in conditions of capitalist crisis, imperialist wars, of the current popular struggles and uprisings, for working-class and popular rights, the strengthening of proletarian internationalism and the anti-imperialist front, for the overthrow of capitalism and the construction of socialism.” |
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