The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) and the Collectives of Young Communists (CJC) wish to express our full solidarity with the student militant of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) and the other militants of the organization who were harassed and attacked by a group of Nazi-fascists on the night of November 3 in the city of Patras.
For several days, a group of Nazi-fascists had been harassing a fifteen-year-old KNE militant who was a member of the Patras Students’ Coordinating Committee. On the night of November 3, KNE members went to defend her when a group of Nazi-fascists attacked these students, leaving eight injured, two of them seriously. Furthermore, it must be pointed out that, after leaving the hospital, these students who had been attacked were arrested.
The Nazi-fascists, the henchmen who seek to do the dirty work in the service of the interests of capital, had planned this attack to inflict the greatest possible harm, even to the point of causing death, in order to intimidate the organization of communists. We communists are clear about this: these attacks will not intimidate us, but will be met with greater organization and struggle.
Violence by Nazi-fascists groups in Greece is nothing new, nor is the complicity of the Greek state with them. On October 28,workers in Thessaloniki were subjected to police repression for protesting against the presence in the city of the neo-Nazi Kasidiaris, founder of Golden Dawn, who was released this past September after serving six years of his thirteen-year sentence, as his organization was behind attacks against immigrants and workers and the murder of Pavlos Fyssas.
The rise of reaction and of openly fascist movements is a reality affecting the whole of Europe, in a context of capitalist crisis and increasing pro-war propaganda through which anti-communist and anti-working-class discourses are spread and normalized. These organizations are supported by certain sectors of capital to act in defence of their interests in times of heightened confrontation. Thus, we communists will be on the front line to confront them and organize the working class against them.
Solidarity with the Greek comrade who was harassed and assaulted, solidarity with the injured comrades.
Solidarity with the KKE and the KNE.
Nazi-fascists out.