Hands off the Communist Party of Poland

Special Resolution of the 41st Convention of the Communist Party of Canada

The 41st convention of the Communist Party of Canada strongly condemns the December 4 decision of Poland’s Constitutional Court to ban the Communist Party of Poland.

This ban is the latest in a long line of attacks on the Communist Party of Poland, including a similar attempt five years ago which failed. It reflects an escalating anti-communist trend among governments in Europe with the support of the European Union, and in the United States with Donald Trump’s Anti-Communism Week.

This escalation is happening as communist parties and other forces are mobilizing against imperialist wars and aggressions, the skyrocketing arms budgets of NATO countries, deepening social contradictions of capitalism, and intensifying attacks on working people.

This convention stands with Communist and Workers’ parties around the world, in calling for an immediate reversal of this unjust ban and an end to the persecution of the Communist Party of Poland.

We call on the Canadian government to pressure Poland, its “democratic” ally in NATO, to do overturn the ban.

We further call upon the Canadian government to reverse its endorsement of “Black Ribbon Day” and to remove the “Victims of Communism” memorial, both of which purposely distort history and equate communism with the horrors of fascism.