{"id":1671,"date":"2026-07-01T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:41:09","slug":"30th-june-2026-aegina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"28th June 2026 &#8211; Aegina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><u>Piraeus Regional Organizations of the KKE and KNE | Branches of the PEAEA and DSE<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Major event at the former Aegina Prison building<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u03a3\u03c4\u03b9\u03b3\u03bc\u03b9\u03cc\u03c4\u03c5\u03c0\u03bf-\u03bf\u03b8\u03cc\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2-2026-07-01-105747-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u03a3\u03c4\u03b9\u03b3\u03bc\u03b9\u03cc\u03c4\u03c5\u03c0\u03bf-\u03bf\u03b8\u03cc\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2-2026-07-01-105747-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1672\" width=\"348\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u03a3\u03c4\u03b9\u03b3\u03bc\u03b9\u03cc\u03c4\u03c5\u03c0\u03bf-\u03bf\u03b8\u03cc\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2-2026-07-01-105747-2.png 438w, https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/\u03a3\u03c4\u03b9\u03b3\u03bc\u03b9\u03cc\u03c4\u03c5\u03c0\u03bf-\u03bf\u03b8\u03cc\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2-2026-07-01-105747-2-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">With a <strong>major event<\/strong> on Sunday morning at the <strong>historic Aegina Prison building<\/strong>, the Piraeus Regional Organizations of <strong>the Greek Communist Party and Greek Communist Youth and the Piraeus Branches of the Panhellenic Union of Fighters in the Greek Resistance and Democratic Army of Greece<\/strong>&nbsp; paid tribute to the communists and other activists who were <strong>imprisoned, tortured, and executed in yet another labor camp of the bourgeois state, yet remained unbroken,<\/strong> drawing strength from their faith in the justice of the people and in socialism-communism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mass rally, which drew a large crowd of people of all ages\u2014including many Aegina residents\u2014 simultaneously sent a defiant message of opposition to plans to distort historical memory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, it protested the unacceptable decision by the government and the Attica Regional Authority to grant part of the historic building of the former Aegina Prison to an NGO for the creation of a \u201cPistachio Museum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speaker at the event was <strong>Nikos Abatielos<\/strong>, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the KKE and the Party\u2019s Member of Parliament for Piraeus 1<sup>st<\/sup> district, who emphasized: \u201cToday we stand here with pride, filled with awe, emotion, and admiration for our comrades who passed through these cells. Most of them were held not in one but in many places of martyrdom and heroism for decades. Through their example, they have left behind an immense legacy\u2014one that cannot be imprisoned or executed, but remains alive: that even under the harshest conditions of confinement, they kept alive their faith in a world without the exploitation of one human being by another, transforming the prison into a space for struggle, knowledge, collective strength, and action. We are here because this story is not over. Because the conflict between these two worlds\u2014which was so vividly reflected in this place\u2014continues today, in other forms, through other means, but with the same fundamental essence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was addressed by <strong>Nikos Fassas<\/strong>, a member of the Central Committee of the KNE and Secretary of the Piraeus Regional Organization of the KNE, and <strong>Nikos Triantafyllou<\/strong>, a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of the Imprisoned and Exiled. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A detailed report will appear in tomorrow\u2019s issue of *Rizospastis*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piraeus Regional Organizations of the KKE and KNE | Branches of the PEAEA and DSE Major event at the former Aegina Prison building With a major event on Sunday morning at the historic Aegina Prison building, the Piraeus Regional Organizations of the Greek Communist Party and Greek Communist Youth and the Piraeus Branches of the Panhellenic Union of Fighters in the Greek Resistance and Democratic Army of Greece&nbsp; paid tribute to the communists and other activists who were imprisoned, tortured, and executed in yet another labor camp of the bourgeois state, yet remained unbroken, drawing strength from their faith in the justice of the people and in socialism-communism. The mass rally, which drew a large crowd of people of all ages\u2014including many Aegina residents\u2014 simultaneously sent a defiant message of opposition to plans to distort historical memory.&nbsp; Specifically, it protested the unacceptable decision by the government and the Attica Regional Authority to grant part of the historic building of the former Aegina Prison to an NGO for the creation of a \u201cPistachio Museum.\u201d The speaker at the event was Nikos Abatielos, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the KKE and the Party\u2019s Member of Parliament &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/?p=1671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}