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 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.

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!

• 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. Communist Party of Australia
2. Party of Labour of Austria
3. Communist Party of Bangladesh
4. Brazilian Communist Party
5. Communist Party of Brazil
6. Communist Party of Britain
7. Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia
8. Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
9. Communist Party of Denmark
10. German Communist Party
11. Communist Party of Greece
12. Tudeh Party of Iran
13. Iraqi Communist Party
14. Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq
15. Communist Party of Ireland
16. The Workers Party of Ireland
17. Communist Party of Israel
18. Italian Communist Party
19. Lebanese Communist Party
20. Communist Party of Mexico
21. New Communist Party of the Netherlands
22. Communist Party of Norway
23. Palestinian Communist Party 
24. Palestinian Peoples Party 
25. Peruvian Communist Party
26. Philippines Communist Party [PKP 1930]
27. Romanian Socialist Party
28. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
29. Communists of Serbia 
30. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
31. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
32. Sudanese Communist Party
33. Communist Party of Swaziland
34. Communist Party of Sweden
35. Swiss Communist Party
36. Syrian Communist Party
37. Communist Party of Turkey
38. Union of Communist of Ukraine
39. Communist Party of Venezuela
40. Communist Party USA

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.