Category: Announcements

Aug 12

The Pirate Party of Greece officially adopts the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism

  • 12.08.2025

Composite image displaying the emblem of the Pirate Party of Greece on the left and the logo of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) on the right.

The Pirate Party of Greece (PPGR), true to the Pirate Ideology’s principles, recognizes the need to clearly and unequivocally fight and condemn antisemitism. Antisemitism has been the basis for many centuries of brutal discrimination and murderous persecution against the Jews, which peaked with the Holocaust.  

In our Statutes,[1] we explicitly and unequivocally declare our dedication to the protection of human rights for all, without exceptions and/or conditions – regardless of race, religion, origin, gender identity-expression etc., exactly as dictated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UN General Assembly and by the European Convention on Human rights. Our stance is reaffirmed in our other fundamental texts: our Founding Declaration,[2] our Prinicples,[3] and the Rethymno Declaration.[4]

We incorporate our fight against antisemitism in our general fight against racism. If humankind must learn one thing from the Holocaust and all other genocides is that “Never Again” must mean “Never Again for Anyone”. To us, human rights are universal, inalienable, and cannot be subject to negotiations. Thus, we are not going to treat the fight against antisemitism as incompatible with, or as competitive to the fight for the rights of the Palestinian people – or any other people. 

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May 12

The Leadership of The European Pirate Party Casts Doubt on Pirates’ Right to Criticize Party Officials

  • 12.05.2025

Το έμβλημα του Κόμματος Πειρατών Ελλάδας The emblem of the Pirate Party of Greece

The Leadership of The European Pirate Party Casts Doubt on Pirates’ Right to Criticize Party Officials 

The Pirate Movement is ostensibly a movement that stands for free speech, free criticism, free scrutiny, transparency and accountability of those in power, including party officials. Israel’s genocidal campaign against Gaza, however, laid bare the hypocrisy of the hegemonic powers within our movement. We witnessed some of the highest-ranking officers of the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei Deutschland – PPDE) adopt and amplify far-right racist and bigoted rhetoric and conspiracy theories against the Palestinians and Muslims in general, as well as falsehoods against UNRWA and the International Criminal Court. 

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Apr 01

Hands off, Mr. Trump!

  • 01.04.2025

Το έμβλημα του Κόμματος Πειρατών Ελλάδας - The Logo of the Pirate Party of Greece

In another display of insolence and bravado, the convicted felon Donald Trump decided to start ordering European businesses to disobey EU labor and anti-discrimination laws. The US government has precisely zero competence and authority over the European Union, its member-states, and European businesses’ compliance with EU law. In other words, the convicted felon has no right whatsoever to order any nation’s businesses to violate existing national, supranational, and international law. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices are solid recruitment and Human Resources (HR) tools that have been beneficial to businesses, universities, and organizations: they have helped them discover, gain, retain and utilize talent that would otherwise be overlooked and underutilized due to biases that have everything to do with potential employees’ color, sex, gender, and wealth, and nothing to do with how skilled or talented they really are. DEI is a competitive advantage that EU should fully embrace, instead of crippling its businesses by bowing down to Trump and his unhinged cabinet in their racist, bigoted, sexist, destructive “culture wars”. 

Trump, a conman who has bankrupted every business he’s ever touched, is in no position to talk about best practices in hiring. What he really wants to do is make hiring racist, racist, and bigoted again – like himself. It’s bad enough that he’s undoing decades of work against exclusionary, racist, sexist practices in business hiring in the United States. His attempt to order European businesses about is beyond disgusting and must be rejected by Europe in the strongest way possible.

We, the Pirate Party of Greece, unequivocally condemn the United States’ interventionism; we condemn all of Trump’s allies in Greece and all over Europe; we call for EU regulatory organizations and businesses to ignore Trump’s illogical and outrageous demands; and call upon every democratic and humanist citizen, every rational professional, every EU enterprise, small and large, and every pro-democracy political party to unite against this out-of-control dictator and his goons.

#DEI #Interventionism #Racism #Sexism #Bigotry #Trump

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Feb 23

Uprooting Neo-LePenism from The Pirate Movement

  • 23.02.2025

Several pirate ships laboring in a stormy sea near a cliff face.

In 2023, the 11th Congress of The Pirate Party of Greece approved a major update of its Statutes, taking significant steps towards clarifying our party’s ideological identity and giving it a clearly progressive direction. Among the amendments approved by the party’s Congress was the removal, from both the Statutes and the Founding Declaration, of the historically and politically illiterate reference that we do not place ourselves on the “obsolete” Left-Center-Right axis. This reference is a maxim that has hobbled the entire Pirate Movement since its beginning, as it still enjoys a fatwa-like status for most Pirate parties. Most Pirate parties’ leaderships still believe it gives them some sort of “flexibility” regarding the policies (especially fiscal ones) they will endorse in each political context, citing their desire to have a “context-dependent appeal”. 

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