Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Secretary General Dimitris Koutsoumbas on Thursday laid a wreath at Skopeftirio in Kessariani, a district of Athens where Nazis executed 200 communists on May 1, 1944.

“We honour the 200 executed heroic communists in Kessariani, we honour the thousands of fighters who gave their life 70 years ago and set by their stance and their acts the unfolding process of a harsh conflict, a tough battle against barbarity, to which capitalism leads,” Dimitris Koutsoumbas said at the site.

He added that “their sacrifice serves as a guide and a beacon, and inspires us in our struggles now and in the future, until the final abolition of man’s taking advantage of man.”