Category: Pirate Movement
Will be published in the relevant section, along with our other ideological documents. Posted here for publicity reasons and as a courtesy to fellow Pirates.
For a New Pirate Movement – Political, Ideological, and Programmatic Declaration of the Pirate Party of Greece
Rethymno, June 2025
We are living in extremely dark times. The hardcore far-right marches on incessantly, fueled by vast amounts of money offered to it by neo-fascist multi-billionaire oligarchs, hell-bent on undoing all political and social progress that took place since the Enlightenment. To propagandize their ideology, they have leveraged eager scribes in their corporate media, flanked by much-advertised think tanks that operate on dark money and plant their pundits in the largest universities. A further, more recent, addition to this crowd is a host of various depraved influencers, who preach hate and misanthropy. The imposition of neo-fascist rhetoric as the only acceptable frame for public speech is overseen by Gauleiter in the monopolistic social networks and each nation’s judiciary.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.pirateparty.gr/2025/09/the-rethymno-declaration-en/
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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Permanent link to this article: https://www.pirateparty.gr/2025/05/the-leadership-of-the-european-pirate-party-casts-doubt-on-pirates-right-to-criticize-party-officials/
Με ενδιαφέρον και έκπληξη ακούσαμε στο News247, ένα podcast με τίτλο “Πώς θα πέφτουν τα πρόστιμα για το παράνομο downloading;” του δημοσιογράφου Σταύρου Διοσκουρίδη με τον κ. Τίμο Κουρεμένο.
Να ξεκαθαρίσουμε κάτι. Το να κερδίζεις χρήματα εκμεταλλευόμενος την ιδιοκτησία τρίτου χωρίς αυτός να λαμβάνει τίποτα είναι ανήθικο, εκτός από παράνομο. Οπότε, καταλαβαίνουμε απόλυτα και συμφωνούμε με τον νόμο που τιμωρεί όσους πουλάνε περιεχόμενο που δεν τους ανήκει.
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.pirateparty.gr/2025/03/i-pirateia-den-antimetopizete-me-prostima/
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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Permanent link to this article: https://www.pirateparty.gr/2025/02/uprooting-neo-lepenism-from-the-pirate-movement/
