Joint Statement of Communist and Workers’ Parties 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.

This attempt to ban the CP of Poland is the culmination of previous efforts by the Polish bourgeoisie and governments, with the tolerance 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.

In the face of anti-communist hysteria, the rewriting of history, and the provocative equation of the new world, communism, with fascism and its atrocities, alongside repugnant actions such as the recent so-called Anti-Communism Week under US President Trump, we, the Communist Parties , 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!

• We demand an immediate end to persecution and attempts to ban the activities of the Communist Party of Poland.
• We call for a Europe-wide and international mobilization on 1 December, with protests outside Polish embassies to oppose their anti-communist plans.

Solidnet Parties:

1. Party of Labour of Austria
2. Communist Party of Greece
3. The Workers Party of Ireland
4. Lebanese Communist Party
5. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
6. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
7. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
8. Communist Party of Sweden
9. Swiss Communist Party
10. Syrian Communist Party
11. Communist Party of Turkey
12. Union of Communist of Ukraine

Other Parties:

1. Communist Workers’ Party – For Peace and Socialism (Finland)
2. Communist Revolutionary Party of France
3. Communist Front (Italy)

This statement is open for signatures from other parties as well.