Polish Communists Respond to State Ban on Party

Tomás Sheehan

The Communist Party of Poland (KPP) has released a statement in response to the decision of the Polish Constitutional Court to remove the Party from the official register of political parties. The decision of the Tribunal, ratified on 15 December 2025, found that the objectives and activities of the Party were not compatible with Section 13 of the Polish Constitution, which outlaws “totalitarian ideologies”, such as Nazism, fascism and communism. The Tribunal also noted that “The communist ideology goes against the fundamental human values and the traditions of European and Christian civilization”.

In response, the KPP wrote: “ We strongly condemn the unacceptable decision of the District Court in Warsaw to remove the Communist Party of Poland from the register of political parties. This decision is based on a prior ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, issued in violation of the law, which, at the request of the President Nawrocki, ruled that the Party’s goals and activities were incompatible with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.” 

The Party rejects the legality of the decision, stating: “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”.

This is not the first time that attempts have been made in Poland to outlaw the KPP and criminalise communist ideology. It is part of a wider trend throughout Europe, where a falsified view of history, equating communism with Nazism and Fascism, is used to justify the restriction of democratic rights and the banning of communist parties. Only earlier last year, we saw similar attempts in Czechia to outlaw the KSČM. These developments cannot be separated from other attacks on the rights and conditions of the working class in the EU, as the bloc prepares at an ever increasing rate for the outbreak of imperialist war.

The KPP further writes: “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.”

Only socialism offers a path away from the crises, war and devastation guaranteed by the faltering capitalist system. In this period of transition from capitalism to socialism, no amount of criminalisation or falsification of history can stop the struggle of the working class for a new society. 

Solidarity with the KPP and the Polish working class!