The Communist Party USA condemns the anti-communist ruling by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal to outlaw the Communist Party of Poland (KPP). This decision, instigated by the ultra-right President Karol Nawrocki, is a blatant political attack on democratic rights. It criminalizes an entire school of political thought and a legitimate vehicle for working-class representation under the hollow pretext of defending “constitutional order.”

This attack in Poland is not an isolated event. It is a deliberate escalation within a coordinated international campaign to eradicate both communist ideology and historical memory. This anti-communist crusade seeks to whitewash history by equating the struggle for socialism with the horrors of fascism. Its main goal is to dismantle any organized working class opposition to capitalism, war, and exploitation.

We also see this dangerous trend manifesting in our own country. The recent proclamation of an “Anti-Communism Week” by President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, is a calculated provocation. It revives the worst Cold War myths painting the struggle for equality and peace as “one of history’s most destructive ideologies.” This rhetoric provides a smokescreen for attacking the rights and living standards of all working people.

Furthermore, the Trump administration’s executive orders — including the designation of the decentralized “antifa” movement as a terrorist organization and the sweeping mandates of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) — reveal the true target of this anti-communist hysteria: all progressive dissent by the masses of working people.

We stand in unwavering solidarity with our comrades in the Communist Party of Poland. We affirm their right — and the right of people everywhere — to organize, to advocate for socialism, and the freedom to participate fully in the political process. We call upon all democratic-minded people in the United States to recognize these attacks for what they are: a concerted assault on the liberties of all meant to clear the path for unchecked corporate greed and political representation only for the parties of the capitalist class.

Images: Protest by Communist Party of Poland (website).