“It is not the first time that Mr. Tsipras has tried to appropriate history,” sources from the KKE said regarding the ELAS party announced yesterday by former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, accusing him of “trying to cultivate new illusions” while presenting himself as an alternative force of stability for the political system.

“The announcement of ELAS by Mr. Tsipras — framed in marketing terms and with the undisguised support of the government and various system-linked circles — now constitutes the official presentation of his personal credentials to the establishment, so that his party may serve as an alternative for securing the much-desired stability of anti-popular policies.

With vague references and well-worn clichés about reforming the state, ‘fair development,’ and a ‘strong Greece’ — phrases found in the declarations of many other parties as well — Mr. Tsipras is attempting to cultivate new illusions while absolving the rotten system of exploitation. Of course, this is not 2015 anymore, no matter how much some attempt to attribute qualities to him that he does not possess in order to revive the same false political dilemmas,” they stated.

The same sources also criticized the absence of references “to the abolition of anti-popular and anti-labor laws, many of which also bear the signature of his own government.”

“It is not the first time Mr. Tsipras has tried to exploit history. The outcome is well known. He started from Kesariani and ended up with the third memorandum, the agreement with the United States and Donald Trump, the launch of the strategic alliance with the ‘murderous state’ of Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu, and the slogan ‘we belong to NATO,’” they added.

They concluded by targeting Tsipras’ close adviser Nikos Marantzidis: “Today, however, this effort falls flat for one additional reason: a key figure in his team is the representative of historical revisionism, the well-known anti-communist Marantzidis.”