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| Dimitris Koutsoumpas opens the seminar |
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Communist Party leader Andy Brooks took part in an international seminar on the
European Union organised by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in Athens last
weekend. The EU and the other imperialist unions a century after Lenin's work “On the Slogan for a United States of Europe” was the theme of the
seminar called by the European Communist Initiative – the liaison committee of
European communist and workers parties founded in 2013 to co-ordinate communist
work across the continent.
KKE General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumpas
welcomed the meeting, while the introductory speech was delivered by Kostas
Papadakis, a member of the Central Committee
and one of the KKE's MEPS.
In 1915 Lenin said that a capitalist
United States of Europe was neither attainable nor desirable. After the October
Revolution of 1917 communists generally believed that the modern nation-states
in the European heartlands of imperialism represented the highest form of
capitalist society in Europe and that socialism would inevitably follow. But
Andy Brooks said: “following the counter-revolutions in the Soviet Union and
the people’s democracies of eastern Europe, we can see that a European Union is
plainly “attainable” though it is clearly as undesirable for working people as
it was in Lenin’s day”.
The NCP opposed the European Union and the
Treaty of Rome from the very beginning when the Party was founded in 1977 the
NCP leader said covering the baleful influence of EU propaganda throughout the
whole spectrum of social-democracy within the Labour Party and the Trotskyist
sects beyond it. The anti-EU campaign during the EU referendum had consequently
been dominated by the arguments of far right and racist movements, which
concentrated solely on immigration and the defence of the bogus sovereignty of
the Westminster parliament.
Twenty communist and workers parties took
part in the seminar which shed light on the contemporary, complex and serious
developments related to the European Union and other inter-state capitalist
unions and agreements. When the meeting concluded delegates were taken to the
KKE’s HQ for a guided tour of the exhibition on the 100th
anniversary of the Communist Party of Greece.
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