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The Rethymno Declaration

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.

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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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Pirate Party of Greece 12th Congress – Decisions – Resignation from European Pirate Party and Pirate Parties International

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On Sunday 01.06.2025, the 12th Congress of the Pirate Party of Greece (PPGR) took place, entirely via video teleconference (VTC). This Congress was destined to be crucial, as the party’s Body of Members was called upon to decide on subjects pertaining not only to typical procedural formalities, but also the party’s political and ideological identity. Specifically:
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Uprooting Neo-LePenism from The Pirate Movement

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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