Openly honoring their revolutionary heritage, members and supporters of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) paid tribute to fallen comrades, anti-fascist fighters and Soviet soldiers on November 1, demonstrating political courage in the face of relentless anti-communist pressure.
Similar commemorations took place in Dąbrowa Górnicza and Warsaw, where party members honored communist militants, fighters of the People's Guard and People's Army, and Polish volunteers who fought fascism in Spain. They also remembered deceased members of the contemporary KPP.
In Hajnówka, communists paid tribute at the Soviet military cemetery, where more than 3,000 Soviet soldiers who died during the Second World War are buried.
These acts of remembrance carry particular significance in Poland, where the reactionary political establishment has repeatedly sought to criminalize communist activity and erase the revolutionary traditions of the working-class movement. In December 2025, Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled that the KPP was unconstitutional, leading to its removal from the official register of political parties. Following a legal challenge, the party secured its reinstatement in April 2026, although its legal struggle has not been definitively resolved.
Against this background, the public commemorations represent more than a tribute to fallen comrades. They are an act of defiance against the anti-communist campaign that seeks to suppress the party and rewrite Poland's revolutionary and anti-fascist history.
