The leader of the country's communists has reiterated her party's outright opposition to the forging of political alliances with any other party.
Aleka Papariga, outgoing secretary general of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), was addressing delegates on the first day of the party's 19th congress.
In a speech that was critical of all other leftwing approaches to tacking with the crisis, she said that a "popular alliance" with social groups - but not political parties - was the only way to "abolish the power of the monopolies".
The congress, which runs until Sunday at the KKE's headquarters in the northern Athens district of Perisos was preceded by what the party describes as a "pre-congress process" during which some leading members called for the party to consider modifying its stance towards other political forces.
