KKE leader visits HAI, expresses support for workers

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) General Secretary Aleka Papariga on Monday expressed her complete support for staff at the Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) during a visit to meet the HAI workers’ union.

Papariga said her party would undertake any initiative possible to ensure that HAI’s staffing needs were immediately met.

HAI staff stressed that the state-run aircraft systems manufacturer, considered one of the basic enterprises in the Greek defence industry, currently has a number of unfinished projects.

KKE’s leader criticised the policy of past governments in allowing the decline of HAI and the Greek defence industry as a whole, and said this was being done in support of plans for a single European defence industry based in Germany, the Netherlands, France and other leading EU powers.