Last month on January 12, 2026, the District Court in Warsaw, Poland, removed the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) from the registrar of political parties. Per the KPP, this decision was based on a prior ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal that said the KPP’s goals and activities were incompatible with the Constitution of Poland. This request to the Tribunal was made by the President of Poland, Nawrocki. This tribunal ruling was issued in violation of law and illegally, as the judgment was not legally binding and authorities in Poland don’t recognize it’s decision due to irregular elections of the judges. Unless, of course, it’s convenient for the bourgeoisie to use the legal system as a weapon against the workers. The KPP has vowed to fight the decisions and continue organizing the working class.
These events in Poland echo events from last year in the Czech Republic, where the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) was targeted with laws that put any upholding of Communist history, ideology, or symbols on par with Nazism and other fascist symbols. Across Eastern Europe in the former People’s Republics, the reactionaries have passed multiple laws either restricting or outright banning Communist parties, symbols, and history, as was done in Ukraine and Hungary.
In states that were formally in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, multiple Soviet statues and monuments have been torn down. In many cases, they are replaced with either statues or names of various nationalists who have past ties of collaboration with Nazis, pogromists, or other reactionary movements. All in the name of “democracy” and combating “the oppression of Soviet imperialism” while Nazi collaborators are celebrated and honored like the Forest Brothers of the Baltics and Stepan Bandera of Ukraine. Many places that once celebrated solidarity and fraternity between the people are now poisoned by nationalist race-hatred against each other, and in some places outright killing each other while the rich plunder their homelands.
The US Friends of the Soviet People condemn the repression of all Communist parties in the former People’s Democracies, and call on the governments to allow freedom of expression and organizing for those that defend the workers. We call on all people of the Eastern European People’s Democracies to be allowed to honor their history and to fight to restore rule of the people for their own self-determination, not on the whims on reactionary nationalist lapdogs of international monopoly capital.