By New Worker correspondent
AKEL’s community centre in Wood Green was
packed out on Saturday as London comrades joined members of London’s Greek
community at a social at the Cypriot communist centre in honour of visiting
Greek communist leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas. Many had gone to listen to the
Greek communist leader give a talk at Birkbeck College in central London
earlier in the day. Many more came along for the evening reception, which
included live Greek folk music and jazz as well as a Greek buffet and bar.
Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the General
Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), spent a hectic three days in
London visiting the Marx Memorial Library on Friday and Marx’s tomb at Highgate
Cemetery on Sunday.
Koutsoumbas said: "The instruction of
Karl Marx that 'the philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world, the
point is to change it', which was the meaning of his teaching's revolutionary
character, is the timeless message that exists today and illuminates the future
for the new generations, for the world's working class."
Accompanied by numerous members of the
British branches of the KKE and the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE),
Koutsoumbas laid a wreath on Marx’s grave on behalf of the Party. With their
fists raised, the Greek communists shouted "KKE, the people's party"
and "A century of struggles and sacrifices, the KKE in the vanguard".
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