The USS Gerald Ford is docked at the Souda Port in Chania, which serves as a prominent naval base for the United States and its NATO allies in the eastern Mediterranean
December 29, 2023 by Peoples Dispatch

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On Thursday, December 28, anti-imperialists in Greece protested the docking of the US Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford at the Souda Port in Chania. The mobilization, called by the Peace Committee and labor unions in Chania, saw participation from activists of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), the Greek Committee for International Détente and Peace (EEDYE), the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), and All Workers Militant Front (PAME), among others.
Activists held a banner that read “There is no place here for murderers! US and NATO soldiers are not welcome!” The aircraft carrier docked at the port on December 26 and is scheduled to leave on December 30.
Anti-imperialist sections have been protesting the conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis-led New Democracy (ND) government’s decision to participate in the NATO war alliance and the access granted to US-NATO forces to use Greek airstrips and ports for their maneuvers in the Mediterranean.
The US-Greek defense cooperation agreement updated in 2019 included the upgrading of the Souda base and its integration into the existing circuit of bases which the US can access, apart from those in Larissa, Stefanovikeio, Magnesia, Araxos, and Alexandroupolis port. Currently, Souda base serves as a prominent naval base for the United States in the eastern Mediterranean.
While addressing the mobilization in Chania on Thursday, Manolis Papadomanolakis, chairman of the Chania Peace Committee alleged that “the Greek government supports in all ways the murderous hand of the Israeli state, along with the other parties of NATO, at the risk of a general conflagration.” He added that the expansion of NATO’s bases had turned the country into a base of war and a possible target of reprisals.
Communists and trade unionists have also opposed Greece’s involvement in ongoing wars in Ukraine and West Asia. Recently, KKE protested the government’s decision to send a Hellenic Navy Frigate to the Red Sea to join the US-led “Operation Prosperity Guardian” to counter the Yemeni naval blockade against Israel led by the Ansar Allah (Houthis).
Meanwhile, on December 28, a Greek-owned cargo ship sailing under the Panamanian flag in the Black Sea en route to Ismail port in Ukraine was struck allegedly by a Russian naval mine, slightly injuring two Greek sailors.
The KKE has stated that the incident “confirms once again the enormous risks to the lives of seafarers in war zones.”
“It is tragically proven that in the “arena” of shipowners’ profit, safety is sacrificed first and foremost, and sometimes the very lives of the workers on board ships. Imperialist conflicts around the world are a goldmine for shipowners who see huge opportunities for profitability,” the KKE added.
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Much more likely that was an Ukrainian mine.
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Any kind of Greece’s involvement in imperialist plans must stop immediately!

In a comment on the dispatch of a Greek frigate to the Red Sea, the Press Office of the CC of the KKE stresses the following:
“The dispatch of a Greek frigate to the Red Sea, under the pretext of the safety of maritime navigation and protection of merchant ships, involves the country even more deeply in the dangerous imperialist plans, which at this stage are directly linked to the support of the murderous policy of the Israeli state.
Both this mission and other missions of Greek warships in the Eastern Mediterranean and elsewhere, carried out in the framework of NATO operations, show the real purpose of the acquisition of warships and other armament programmes, which the Greek people are dearly paying for.
Greek ships or other military units have no business taking part in missionsthat have nothing to do with the defence of the country and the protection of its borders.Any kind of Greece’s involvement in imperialist plans must stop immediately!”
22.12.2023
https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Any-ki ... mediately/
The KKE denounces the destruction of a monument to the Red Army in Sofia

The KKE denounces the unacceptable desecration and destruction of the anti-fascist monument in honour of the liberating Red Army in Sofia in the strongest possible terms.
The destruction of the monument, which was set up in 1954, ten years after the liberation of Bulgaria by the Red Army and the armed Bulgarian anti-fascist movement led by the communists, is another link in the chain of destruction of similar monuments in many European countries. It is a destruction carried out by anti-popular governments with the backing of the EU, which is leading the anti-communist campaign and the unhistorical equation of communism with fascism.
The unacceptable Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the context of the inter-imperialist conflict between capitalist Russia and the USA-NATO-EU, is being skilfully exploited, together with the unrealistic comparison of the USSR with today’s Russia, to tear down anti-fascist monuments in many countries in Europe, aiming to rewrite history and to erase the heroic contribution of the Red Army and the Soviet Union to the crushing of fascism, which is flesh of the flesh of the capitalist system and was defeated thanks to the enormous sacrifices of the first socialist state, the USSR and the armed partisan movements.
The KKE condemns these efforts and calls upon the peoples in Europe to react decisively against these objectives and practices.
The rewriting of history will fail!
Long live the enormous contribution of the Red Army to humanity!

https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/The-KK ... -in-Sofia/