Koutsoumbas: Real opponent has 'not gone away' with SYRIZA victory

The real opponent, he said, "is still here, more ready and equipped to use the alternation in government for new privileges, for a capitalist recovery."

"KKE's Parliamentary group, supported by the work of the entire party and feeling the weight of the responsibility of meeting the fundamental duty of empowering the worker-popular opposition within and outside Parliament, will contribute to strengthening the struggle against the monopolies and their power, the imperalist alliances, the EU, its agreements and inspections in individual states, will make use of the specific power that the people have given the KKE in the direction of reconstructing the labour movement and to seek to extract whatever entitlements possible for the popular strata and immediate measures for their relief," Kouroumblis said.

He went on to criticise the government for its position that Greece will meet commitments within NATO, as well as for signing the EU agreement on Ukraine, despite its initial "show of resistance".

According to Koutsoumbas, the new Greek government had the support of "major bourgeois political forces" and "symbolises and serves the pressure of the United States," as well as forces in France and Italy on the German government in order to alter the distribution of burdens and profits in managing the Eurozone debt crisis, replacing a policy of austerity with an expansionary policy.

Koutsoumbas said that KKE's Parliamentary group will work to reveal government policy, to demand that losses be restored and contemporary social needs met, while at the same time supporting and carefully examining every bill that brought real relief to workers.