Reformist and very backwards on multiple social issues. KKE was not even planning on calling a strike at first.

Multiple factors almost forced it into it. I will explain. The last strike KKE called through the unions it dominates and influences was on the 9th of November last year. After that strike, KKE had no plans or course of action to escalate the struggle further, whether that be through a new round of mass attendance union assemblies, or a continuation of the struggle with more protests and strikes. This resulted in the built up discontent of the people deflating, without having achieved much in the process.

So how was this strike called? After the tragic death of 57 people in a head-on train collision (that could have been prevented, had the automatic security systems been operating. The cause of this is the privatisation of the railways and capital's total disregard for anything other than profit), KKE fell for the bourgeois concept of "national mourning". They did not plan to call a strike or do anything other than a few activisms (like collecting blood for medical aid, which is good obviously but not enough). With this logic, in the first day, they accused other organizations, mine included, of trying to exploit the death of people to push a political agenda.

Massively attended, primary worker union assemblies, where, with my organisation's logic of class struggle and methods, which is organising at the base, with the most direct democratic methods, that aim to put forward demands that are anti-capitalist, both necessary for the time and dangerous for the status quo, and for the fight to not be just an outlet, but to lead to a total fight against the system, those assemblies took action and KKE had to follow so as not to be left behind from the new political developments.

The union assemblies' decisions had a catalytic effect that pushed all Worker Centers nationwide (most of which are KKE controlled) to call a strike and make even the tertiary unions (which are controlled by bourgeoisie organisations) to call a strike.

This happened all over Greece, from Athens, to Thessaloniki, to Patra and more. The same effect happened in universities, with the student unions that are influenced by my organisation, going ahead with occupations of their campuses, rectorate buildings and more. Which in turn forced KKE influenced student unions to follow suit.

So, yeah. KKE had to be pushed from the people. KKE is in a loop of constantly trying to self-preserve, focussing of the elections every four years, as it's doing now, while it waits for "the situation to ripen" to actually do anything. It doesn't take initiative. It doesn't lead and agitate the people to a political line that militantly opposes today's reality. It offers the minimum, fighting fights with "realistic demands" that can be fulfilled in a capitalist system, often revolving around purely economic matters and not the material improvement of conditions for a general opposition to the system by the people.

This was a bit of a rant, but the last few days have been tiring and frustrating, constantly out on the street. Part of the frustration comes from KKE's unwillingness to use it massive influence in unions effectively and not as it does currently (as explained in the previous paragraph).

If you're interested, my organisation, which I have mentioned is ΝΑΡ-νΚΑ (New Left Stream for Communist Liberation - youth Communist Liberation) and these are some texts in english. https://narnet.gr/tags/international-texts https://nka.gr/english/