Mass anti-war demonstrations held in Berlin and Stuttgart

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The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on Friday October 3, two mass demonstrations against war took place in Berlin and Stuttgart. Tens of thousands of workers and young people took part, following calls from trade unions, mass organizations, peace committees, and political parties. They protested against the war economy and preparations for war and against the genocide in Palestine. This was in spite of the fact that most of the calls by social democratic union leaders did not mention the genocide in Palestine, given the Social Democratic Party's support for the state of Israel.

The KKE and KNE (Communist Youth) actively participated in the demonstrations, voicing slogans opposing imperialist war and supporting international solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for their homeland.

They distributed hundreds of copies of the Party’s proclamation in Greek and German, which concluded as follows: “Through the decisive strengthening of their organized struggle, the peoples must defend their own interests against the plans of the imperialists. They must take a stand against the presence and operation of foreign military bases, the deployment of troops and military equipment abroad, and the enormous war expenditure that serves the interests of capital. They must support the initiatives of trade unions and mass organizations to send humanitarian aid to Palestine, as well as their mobilizations against the transport of deadly cargoes of weapons and ammunition used against the Palestinian and other peoples. They should not trust governments that drag the peoples into the slaughterhouses of war, nor fall into the dangerous trap of racism, fascism and chauvinism which are fostered by various political forces. Today, we must struggle so that people do not line up behind the interests and policies of their exploiters or choose sides between them, but instead forge their own path. They must dynamically join the struggle to overthrow the capitalist system that gives rise to wars, and fight for a society without exploitation of man by man that can ensure their real security and prosperity. For a society based on peaceful, supportive, cooperative, and mutually beneficial relationships with other peoples, free from commitments to imperialist mechanisms such as NATO and the EU. This society is socialism!”.