Their Profits or our Lives!

28 February 2025 

Central Executive Committee

The Young Communist League – Ligue de la jeunesse communiste extends its unequivocal solidarity with the nationwide strike in Greece today on the occasion of the anniversary of the state crime of Tempe which took the lives of 57 people, most of whom were youth. 

We echo the slogan heard today across Greece shouted by the workers and students “their profits or our lives”! 

We salute the immense efforts in the preparations for the nationwide strike carried out by our comrades of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) and the All Student Cooperation Movement (Panspoudastiki KS). The strength of these organisations alongside the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the All Workers Militant Front (PAME) were essential to mobilizing workers across the country for a historic general strike. 

For us young communists in Canada the most important lesson we can draw from the nationwide strike in Greece today is that this strike was political in nature. With the slogan of KNE “The profits of the capitalists “suffocate” the needs of the people. Our breath of life is the struggle for our just cause to overthrow this system!” directly confronting not just the policies of the current government but rather the capitalist system itself. 

We stand with our comrades and all young workers and students who mobilised en masse today in every corner of Greece. We know that we have more in common with our peers in Greece than we do with our exploiters in Canada, not only do we share a common enemy in the ruling class but we share a common goal in Socialism-Communism. 

Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!