Cde Vasilis Papasotiriou, the president of the “Movement for the Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Greece 1918-55” and publisher of the newspaper “Anasintaxi”, passed away

Athens, 2^nd February 2009

On Saturday, on the 31^st of January 2009, comrade Vasilis Papasotiriou died in his home in Athens.

Comrade Vasilis Papasotiriou was member of the revolutionary Communist Party of Greece since 1941, guerrilla of the National Liberation People’s Army (ELAS) and the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE), revolutionary communist. He remained an adversary of Krushchevite revisionism and adherent of the revolutionary line of Stalin and Zachariades until the end of his life.

He was president of the “Movement for the Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Greece 1918-55” and publisher of the newspaper “Anasintaxi”.

His funeral took place at the village Marathias in Nafpaktos on Monday.

The Political Committee of the “Movement for the Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Greece 1918-55”