Assembly-discussion and first step of forming a local committee of the Initiative for a Modern Communist Program and Party in Patras
After the publication of the text of Positions and programming principles from the secretariat of the Initiative for a Modern Communist Program and Party the process of meetings of the Committees of the Initiative has begun.
On Saturday 12/10, the founding assembly of the local Initiative Committee was held in Patras. The potential gathered, with a strong presence of youth and young workers, discussed the next steps. Opinions and reflections were submitted about the modern working class, its differences in relation to the past, its possibilities for revolutionary action in contrast to the tendencies of co-responsibility with capital. Questions were raised about how, in an era of general retreat of revolutionary ideas, the conditions for the reversal of the situation as well as for the situation in the anti-capitalist left and in ANTARSYA will be formed. At the end of the process, the plan of the next meetings and interventions of the initiative was formulated, which will be made public in the next period.
For Friday and Saturday, October 18-19, 3 meetings of the Committees of the Initiative were planned in Attica: 1) Founding meeting of the Committee in the areas of Patisia-Kypseli-Galatsi-Ampelokipoi-Gyzi, Friday 10/18, at Galatsi Town Hall, 2) meeting of the Committee of the Northern Districts of Athens, Friday 18/10, at Villa Stella, Heraklion Attica and 3) Founding meeting of Piraeus (A and B Piraeus), Saturday 19/10, at the Labor Club of Keratsiniou-Drapetsonas, at 7.00 p.m.
For the next period of time, the following have been set and are being prepared: 1)Thursday 24/10 Kolonos – Exarchia – Petralona – Koukaki, 2) Saturday 2/11 Western Committee Meeting at 18:30 at the Peristeri Left Movement hangout (18 Acropoleos & Iasonos) and 3) Saturday 02/11 in the Southern Districts and Saturday 09/11 in the Eastern Districts.
Published in the newspaper Before (19.10.24)
The Theses of the Communist Initiative: A Program of Labor Politics and Power
2024-10-21 16:30:00