During the mobilization, Afroditi Ktena delivered the KKE’s formal protest note to Ewa Pańczak, Deputy Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy. The statement reads in part:
“The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) hold today, December 1, 2025, a protest at the Polish Embassy expressing their internationalist solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland, against the unacceptable attempts to ban its legal activity — plans systematically promoted in recent years by Polish governments and judicial authorities.
A hearing has been set for December 3 at the Constitutional Court following a petition submitted by the President of Poland, K. Nawrocki, claiming ‘unconstitutionality of the aims and actions of the Communist Party of Poland.’
The unfounded and deliberately motivated accusations and persecutions against the Communist Party of Poland have not broken it, despite the attempts of successive governments encouraged by anti-communism — the official ideology of the EU.
Anti-communism and persecution of communists go hand-in-hand with the intensification of anti-people policies, savage cuts in income and workers’ and popular rights, the rewriting of History and the unacceptable equation of communism with the fascist monster that has committed atrocious crimes against the peoples.
The KKE and KNE express their solidarity and stand by the Communist Party of Poland, stressing that it is the inalienable right of the Polish communists to freely express themselves politically and to act for the defense of the people’s interests in their country.
The KKE demands that the Polish authorities stop immediately all persecutions against the Communist Party of Poland. The unacceptable Penal Code that institutionalizes a framework of persecution of communists and other fighters — effectively suspending any expression of popular freedom in Poland — must be abolished.
Hands off the Polish communists!”
The EU promotes anti-communist hysteria
In a statement after the protest, Afroditi Ktena stated:
“We came here today to express our internationalist solidarity against the unacceptable prosecution targeting the Communist Party of Poland — a prosecution launched by the President of Poland in order to outlaw the Party for so-called ‘unconstitutional activity.’ We consider this persecution unacceptable, baseless, and part of the broader framework of attacks against communists and anti-communist hysteria throughout the European Union.
We have seen many manifestations of this anti-communist hysteria in the EU in recent years. It is not the first time that an attempt has been made to ban the Communist Party of Poland. In the past, internationalist solidarity and the organized mobilization of communist parties — as well as the steadfast stance of the Communist Party of Poland itself — stopped these plans, and the same will happen now.
It is no coincidence that this persecution comes at a time when the exploitation of the working class and popular strata is intensifying, repression is deepening at every level, and the EU is preparing for war, preparing the peoples to shed their blood for interests that are not their own.
Against this, communists around the world — and in our country — organize, fight, stop developments, and put up obstacles. That is what annoys them. That is why persecutions are unleashed. They will not succeed. History cannot be rewritten — and communists will ensure that it is not rewritten.
Once again, we express our solidarity with the Communist Party of Poland and demand that the prosecution cease and that the legal framework in Poland which enables such persecutions be abolished.”
