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Youth in Greece mobilized to protest in solidarity with US university students and Gaza at the US embassy and to honour the 50th KNE (Communist Youth of Greece)–Odigitis Festival.
According to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on April 27, the student unions of Athens demonstrated in solidarity with the students studying at US universities and their struggle against the orgy of repression that attempts to silence their voices, and marched to the US Embassy. They reiterated their solidarity with the Palestinian people and their outrage at the genocide unleashed by Israel in Gaza. They opposed Greece’s involvement in the massacre of the Palestinian people and condemned the support of the Greek government, the USA and the EU for the crimes of the Israeli state.
On Sunday, April 28, thousands of visitors flooded the historic site of the Shooting Range of Kaisariani to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the execution of 200 communists on May Day 1944, and also the 50th anniversary of the KNE–Odigitis Festival. This event was the first stop on the journey of the 50th Festival, which will culminate in September.
Thodoris Chionis, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the KKE, stressed, among other things, the following:
Here, at the first stop of the anniversary events of the 50th Festival of KNE-Odigitis, we honour the dead and our history, we raise up high the red banner, which has acquired its colour from the blood dripping from the struggles of the working class; the red of the dawn of the new world, of the flames and freedom. We are sending a message calling for stronger counter-attacks for the just cause of the peoples of Greece and Europe (...)
(…) We strengthen the current disputing the anti-popular policy of the governments and the EU in Greece and all over Europe. With a stronger KKE for stronger counter-attacks, for a counter-weight to the government’s policy. With a stronger KKE to convey a message of militant optimism throughout Europe and beyond.
The speech was followed by a tribute concert to the prominent Greek composer Christos Leondis and his musical work based on the poetry of the great communist poet Yannis Ritsos and other important poets and lyricists.
