Dear comrades;

In a society divided in classes, the role of the press is also class-oriented. Those who refuse in words or in practice this truth, essentially refuse and fight against the right of the CP and CYO to have their own media, to guide the masses through them. Which is why opportunism always goes hand in hand with the slandering of revolutionary press on one hand and flirting with bourgeois press on the other.

Could it be that the expanded use of the Internet, the information gathering through the social media or informational websites makes the conception of communists for the class-oriented character of the press obsolete? Is it possible that we don't need a printed guiding organ of the CYO's any more?

We do not underestimate the Internet. Our Party pioneered in the internet in Greece in a period that a lot of people did not even know about it: in 1996 we created the website of the Party and in 1997 the website of “Rizospastis”, organ of the CC of KKE. KNE made its corresponding steps, we have had our websites since many years, a YouTube channel. The KKE has its own news portal. Today, we use the internet to make our propaganda, to post videos, posters, announcements. We think a lot about how we could utilize our internet propaganda in a better way.

The newspaper – Organ of the CC is an organizer and a guide. For example, through Odigitis, we transmit the experience on the positive steps in the organization of the struggle and the movement from and to various spaces, in the schools, the Technological Institutions, the workplaces. The transmittance and generalization of this experience through the newspaper contribute in the nationwide organization of a unitary activity. This cannot be done in a different way. The Organizations of KNE are the reporters and correspondents of the newspaper, those that act daily inside the youth, feeding Odigitis with examples from their activities. The press – as guide, agitator, organizer – is irreplaceable.

We do not oppose the use of the internet; we oppose the applications that are used to search for and communicate with colleagues, comrades, friends. And this is because this kind of communication is exposed to the international monopolies of information technology that is proven that they are interconnected with state and interstate intelligence and monitoring services. The facilitation of search and communication based on common interests is not innocent at all. It is guided by the objective to manipulate, it is at the expense of face to face communication, of the collectivity, and of other important elements that help the development of the movement. That is why all these where promoted as “social forms” in contradiction with other forms of social organization such as the trade-unions, the syndicates. The “social media” (facebook, twitter et al) are private property of the capitalists, they are offered and used as a means of collecting information and of blackmail against the militant youth, as a means in the end of total manipulation.

We see the issue of the internet from a class scope, as an issue of capitalist property and of political power so that we do not allow to the cultivation of myths and traps that say that the new technologies, independently of who is their owner and for what aims he uses them, can guarantee the well-being and happiness. These can be achieved only with the workers' and peoples' power. Indeed, in these margins the applications of the internet can contribute so that mankind can break the bonds of exploitation, using them in the production for the benefit of the working class, the workers' control of production.

Comrades ,