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"The policy of alliances is a policy of strategic importance. It is determined by the basic, strategic line of the party and this is a very crucial element that requires revolutionary consistency. Every deviation from this duty in the name of maneuvers, temporary electoral gains sets the party back, cancels whatever the CP achieved in the previous period, puts at risk the very revolutionary existence of the party."


"First of all there is a need to fight against the rationale of "lesser evil". It is a very serious problem. Our party -as well- has paid a high price for this in various periods till the beginning of 1990s due to mistakes in the policy of cooperating with "centre" bourgeois powers in order to deal with the anti-people policy of liberal, "right-wing" parties. The rationale of "lesser evil" leads the communist parties to dangerous policies of supporting social-democracy in the name of restricting the electoral power of the "right-wing" undertaking responsibilities for the management of the anti-people policy of the social democrat parties. It leads Communist parties to dangerous policies of tailing politically the bourgeois parties in the name of confronting fascist, ultra-right formations. This experience is very negative."