REPRESSION IN POLAND - Statement from CP.


“The Communist Party of Britain sends its solidarity to the Communist Party of Poland in face of the trial recommencing on 27 November which threatens your members with heavy prison sentences for seeking to disseminate Communist ideas. We are writing to the Polish Embassy in London with the following statement that will also be published our our website and in the daily paper the Morning Star. 

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"Communists in Britain condemn the trial of the Communist Party of Poland for distributing materials that seek to win support for a socialist system of society in their country.

We understand that those accused now face long prison sentences if convicted. 

We ask the government of Poland to note that this prosecution, the result of its own legislation, is a direct violation of the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights on freedoms of thought and expression. 

We are also asking our own government to condemn this trial and to use its current position on the EU Council of Ministers to demand that the EU Council end its shameful silence on this prosecution and instead defends the principles of the European Court of Human Rights'.”