Koutsoubas at Columbia – “Student solidarity”

The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, during his tour in the USA, visited Columbia University in New Yorkwhose students – as well as dozens of other universities across the US – are conducting occupation against the genocide of the Palestinian people and the cooperation of their institutions with the State of Israel, facing persecution and repression.

D. Koutsoubas made the following statement: “We are here at Columbia to express our solidarity with the students who are fighting for freedom in Palestine, to stop this barbaric, unjust war, the genocide of the Palestinian people. It has turned, in essence, into a major student uprising that already embraces dozens of universities across the US and thousands of students are on the streets in solidarity, also in Europe.

In Greece, today, there is a large demonstration of student associations outside the American embassy in support of their fellow students here in New York, against the repression and authoritarianism that the government is trying to use, to suppress these righteous demonstrations. And of course we demand here and now that this war in the Middle East stops more generally, especially in Gaza, in Palestine, to stop the occupation of Palestinian lands by the state of Israel. For freedom in Palestine, on the 1967 borders and all the demands put by the Palestinian community, the Palestinian Authority around the world.

We are here in New York, in the heart of the USA, and we stand with students and struggling workers. We have already seen polls and measurements that show a huge increase in the support of the American people for Palestine compared to a few years ago, for solidarity with Palestine and of course denouncing the murder committed by the state – killer of Israel”.

Responding to a reporter’s question about the if the massiveness of the mobilizations is impressiveD. Koutsoubas pointed out: “This is very important, it doesn’t surprise us, it fascinates us. We believe that this is how history progresses, this is how we will manage to stop the war and start another society, a happy life without the deaths of civilians, without the deaths of children, without massacres of our fellow human beings.”