1/ How do you evaluate the answer given by the people at the ballot box?

Answer: In these elections, a large section of the people chose abstention in order to express their discontent. In addition, they were trapped by false dilemmas and the polarization between SYRIZA and ND about “who would better implement” the anti-people measures, included in the 3^rd memorandum. SYRIZA won as it was able to foster new illusions that despite the signing of the new memorandum with the imperialist institutions (EU,ECB,IMF) its government could manage this situation better than a ND government. In this way, SYRIZA co-opted working class-popular forces, which in the previous years had fought against the anti-people measures and now gave it a “second chance”, aiming for an allegedly “fairer” and “gentler” implementation of these measures.

These election results express the negative correlation of class forces, the retreat of the labour-people’s movement in conditions of a deep capitalist economic crisis.

In these difficult, complex conditions the KKE tabled its political proposal to be more widely and substantially discussed amongst the people and received 301,632 votes, 5.55%, in the elections of September 20^th. It maintained its 15 MPs.

2/ The left platform of SYRIZA took part in the elections as a new formation, Popular Unity (LAE), which was not able to pass the election threshold and remained outside Parliament. What were the key issues of the electoral programme of this party led by P. Lafazanis? Why did it not find resonance?

Answer: LAE, led by former SYRIZA ministers, who for 6 months had been implementing anti-people measures, tried to deceive working class-popular forces by “recycling” the arguments SYRIZA used in January 2015. It promoted a social-democratic programme, with an allegedly anti-memorandum orientation, claiming that it is possible to provide a solution for the people’s problems with a return to a national currency, via (capitalist) “growth”. We aptly characterized it as SYRIZA mark 2, as its positions do not dispute the capitalist system and the EU. It has been demonstrated that a capitalist Greece with a national currency can not be the goal for those who consider themselves to be leftwing and radical.

3/ Despite the large-scale abstention of he people, the KKE kept the same number of MPs. What will be the central axis of the activity of the KKE’s forces in the future?

Answer: The KKE will utilize the actual rallying of forces to be a strong workers’ and people’s opposition in the Parliament and above all in the movement, to strengthen the People’s Alliance that will fight concerning today’s problems but also for the future.

The KKE will struggle so that the workers’-people’s majority, its youth, regardless of how they voted or whether they abstained, do not submit to the anti-people measures and the claims of the government and the bourgeois opposition that the people gave their consent to the implementation of the memorandum.

 The KKE will fight for the political emancipation of working class-people’s forces in the direction of the class struggle and it will continue to promote the alternative solution, concerning the issue of power that can lead to a truly superior organization of the economy and society, with the abolition of capitalist ownership, with social ownership over the means of production, central planning, workers’ control. These are the conditions for the disengagement from the EU in favour of the people with a unilateral cancellation of the debt and liberation from the vice of capital’s markets.

On this basis, our goal is the regroupment and strengthening of the labour movement, the people’s movement more widely, the strengthening of the people’s alliance, in order to reinforce the line of counterattack and rupture against capital, the EU and their power.

On this path we can prevent the worst and struggle to improve the people’s lives.

4/ It is clear that there was an increase in Golden Dawn’s vote in the islands of the Eastern Aegean where the immigration question remains on the agenda. What is the stance of the KKE towards this human wave caused by the ongoing war and which flows from Syria, through Turkey to Greece and is trying to reach Europe?

Answer: To begin with we should note that the KKE’s forces in the Eastern Aegean withstood the nationalist, racist and xenophobic pressure and in several cases achieved very good results. For example, It won 1^st place in Ikaria with 33.2% (up from 31.8% in the January 2015 elections), in Fourni it was in 2nd place with 23.14%. It also received high percentages in Lesvos 10.68% (the island which has the received the largest number of immigrants,) and in Samos 10.05%.

Of course it is correct to identify the fact that fascist GD exploited the issue and was strengthened on some islands. However, there continues to be the negative fact that Nazi Golden Dawn has formed a stable level of political influence. The other parties bear serious responsibilities i.e. the governmental party SYRIZA, the official opposition of ND, as well as other minor opposition parties, which in essence did not wage an open political battle against Golden Dawn. The KKE will continue to raise the banner of struggle against Nazism-Fascism and its representatives today in Greece, who poison the workers’-people’s consciousness.

As regards the issue of refugees and immigrants, we briefly note that the KKE calls on the people, the labour-people’s movement to vigilance and to intensify solidarity with the refugees and immigrants in order to struggle for the following demands in conflict with capitalist barbarity: abolition of the Dublin Regulations, the Schengen Agreement, Frontex and all the other repressive mechanisms of the EU. No to the new measures of the EU for repression at its borders. For an end to the imperialist interventions and wars of the EU-USA-NATO. No Greek participation in them. The direct transit of refugees from the islands and the entry points to their final destination countries, under the responsibility of the EU and UN. The increase of personnel and strengthening of the infrastructure related to rescue, registration-identification, accommodation-food-care and the safe transit to the country’s exit points. The creation of decent reception centres.

05.10.2015