Communist and Workers’ Parties signed on Friday, November 27, a joint statement against the persecution of the Communist Party of Poland: “Our parties strongly condemn the recent unacceptable action by Polish President Nawrocki, who has filed a motion with the Constitutional Court claiming that ‘the aims and activities of the Communist Party of Poland are unconstitutional.’ This is an unfounded motion and largely echoes similar attempts by bourgeois forces in the country five years ago to ban the CP of Poland, which ultimately did not proceed.” The Constitutional Court, in a brief ruling, has set the trial date for 3 December.
Members of the Communist Party of Poland during the May Day demonstration, 2024 (Photo: Communist Party of Poland)
“This attempt to ban the CP of Poland is the culmination of previous efforts by the Polish bourgeoisie and governments, with the encouragement of the EU, whose official ideology is anti-communism. These efforts were met with an immediate international outcry and mobilization by Communist and Workers’ parties around the world and were successfully prevented. These efforts have now resurfaced, as the ideas, actions and interventions of communists stand in opposition to their aims of skyrocketing military armament and the slaughterhouses of war at the expense of the people, intensifying workplace exploitation, and enforcing brutal repression against workers and the youth”, they said.
“In the face of anti-communist hysteria, the rewriting of history, and the provocative equation of communism, with fascism and its atrocities, alongside repugnant actions such as the recent so-called Anti-Communism Week under US President Trump, we declare that anti-communism will fail in Poland and everywhere else. We intensify our efforts to promote communist ideas so that anti-communist propaganda does not take root, particularly among young people, who are their primary target. We are strengthening our interventions so that the people and the youth understand the real way out: socialism–communism. Hands off the communists!”
The parties demand an immediate end to persecution and attempt to ban the activities of the Communist Party of Poland and called for a Europe-wide and international mobilization on 1 December, with protests outside Polish embassies to oppose their anti-communist plans.
Among the signatories: Party of Labor of Austria, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia, Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, German Communist Party, Communist Party of Greece, Tudeh Party of Iran, Iraqi Communist Party, The Workers Party of Ireland, Communist Party of Israel, Lebanese Communist Party, Communist Party of Mexico, New Communist Party of the Netherlands, Peruvian Communist Party, Romanian Socialist Party, Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Communist Party of the Workers of Spain, Sudanese Communist Party, Communist Party of Swaziland, Communist Party of Sweden, Swiss Communist Party, Syrian Communist Party, Communist Party of Turkey, Union of Communist of Ukraine
Communist Party of Venezuela, Communist Workers’ Party – For Peace and Socialism (Finland), Communist Revolutionary Party of France and Communist Front (Italy).
