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Jun 06
The Pirate Party of Greece on the Far-Right Meddling with Human Rights
In horror and disgust, we read that Mr. Alain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, seems to be accepting the Right/Far-Right bloc’s insolent demand to revise the the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).[1]
For many years now, the Right/Far-Right coalition seeks to undermine humanitarian and democratic values and gut all legislation that protects human rights. For many years, through anti-democratic think tanks like the “liberal” Atlas Network and the extreme fascist Heritage Foundation, it has been promoting historical revisionism, a change in the very meaning of words, and regression. Of course, it has “authoritative” scribes in oligarch-owned “mainstream” media and moles in the Academia by its side: these groups have both been hard at work, for decades now, to whitewash fascism and Nazism.
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May 12
The Leadership of The European Pirate Party Casts Doubt on Pirates’ Right to Criticize Party Officials
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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Feb 23
Uprooting Neo-LePenism from The Pirate Movement
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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