The decision to remove the party from the official register of political parties has now been formally communicated to the Communist Party of Poland, which issued the following statement condemning this ahistorical and reactionary ruling:
The Tribunal's judgment is not binding because it was issued in violation of the law by the Constitutional Tribunal, which is not recognized by the authorities due to the irregular election of the judges. The judgment was not published in the Official Journal of the Republic of Poland, Monitor Polski.
Therefore, the court's decision to remove the Communist Party of Poland from the register of political parties, based on it, is legally flawed. The Communist Party of Poland will take steps to appeal these rulings and calls on society to oppose the destruction of political freedoms and the restriction of freedom of association.
The ahistorical, anti-communist actions constitute a broader escalation of attacks on human rights and are part of the intensifying preparations for further attacks on them. Their proponents are gravely mistaken if they believe that court rulings can halt the struggle of the people against capitalist barbarism, wars, exploitation, and poverty.
The Communist Party of Poland emphasizes that no prohibition will prevent the people from demanding the life and rights they deserve in the 21st century, nor from continuing the struggle for social justice.
The KKE condemns the anti-communist ruling
In a statement on the unacceptable ratification of the ban on the Communist Party of Poland by the Polish authorities, the International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) stresses the following:
“The Communist Party of Greece condemns in the strongest possible terms the unacceptable decision of the Warsaw Regional Court to strike the Communist Party of Poland from the register of political parties. This decision implements an earlier anti-communist ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, which, following a request by the President of the country, Nawrocki, imposed a ban on the Communist Party of Poland.
The banning of the Communist Party of Poland forms part of the outrageous prohibitions imposed in EU countries, which—on the basis of the ahistorical equation of communism with the monster of fascism—punish anyone who disseminates communist ideas: in Poland with up to three years’ imprisonment, in the Czech Republic with five years, while in Romania a proposal is being advanced for penalties of up to ten years.
Such anti-communist decisions accompany the intensifying war preparations of the EU and its governments against the peoples. They go hand in hand with the escalation of the anti-working-class offensive, as well as with the assault on the remaining rights of the peoples.
In the face of the darkness they seek to impose through such decisions, in the face of the rotten system they serve, the EU and its governments are gravely mistaken if they believe that judicial rulings can abolish the class struggle, prevent the struggle of the Polish people and other peoples, or halt the struggle of the Communist Parties and communists against the capitalist barbarism of wars, exploitation, poverty, and forced displacement.
The fact that they cannot conceal their anxiety over the struggle of the Communist Parties lies in the reality that only the communists possess a genuine way out of the repulsive present and future that the capitalists and their rotten system reserve for the peoples. This way out is socialism—the youth of the world—for which the peoples are worth fighting with every sacrifice, so that their own needs may be placed at the centre, in a society without exploiters and exploited.”
