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The Polish Attorney General’s Office and the country’s Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro have asked the Constitutional Court to declare the activities of the Communist Party illegal because, they accuse, it incites revolution in its letter of principles. In this way, the cuts in freedoms made by the far-right government of President Andrzej Duda continue.

According to the authorities’ statement, “the objectives and activity of the Polish Communist Party must be declared unconstitutional and its functioning must cease”, due to the “incompatibility” of the objectives of this political party with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland .

In March 2018, a group linked to the Polish government offered to bring the newspaper to justice for an article on the Holocaust, prompting a worldwide rejection of this attitude against Page 12.

On this occasion, the Polish League Against Defamation – set up with the alleged motive of avoiding alleged offenses against Poland – took advantage of a Polish law that had just entered into force to make this newspaper its first target by announcing that he would seek to pursue Page I12 and the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Federico pavlovsky, the author of a back cover on the Jedwabne massacre, where 1,600 Polish Jews were killed in 1941 by anti-Semitic Poles.

The Communist Party of Poland was established in 2002 and is considered the successor to the historic Communist Party that existed in the country from 1918 to 1938.

According to the prosecution, the Communist Party proposes, both in the program and in its activities, totalitarian and communist methods, contrary to article 13 of the Polish Magna Carta.

“The analysis carried out by the Attorney General’s office revealed that its members openly call for a revolution, inspired by the October Revolution in Russia, after which the Bolsheviks seized power.”, add the message.

The prosecution adds that the Party’s aim is “not only to seize power, but also to forcefully carry out nationalization and collectivization”.

Demand to ban the Communist Party comes on top of numerous cuts to freedoms by the far-right government of Andrzej Duda, who was re-elected in July by a small difference.

End of August, the Constitutional Court declared the voluntary termination of pregnancy illegal due to serious fetal malformations, a measure also promoted by Duda’s government.

The court ruling sparked massive mobilisations of women in the streets of Warsaw. The Polish government ordered the intervention of the army which repressed the demonstration and arrested demonstrators.

According to Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski, the detainees belonged to “organized groups trained in street fighting and linked to far-left thugs”, setting a precedent for the measure now launched against the Communist Party.