Polish United Workers’ Party, Statement. February 19, 1956
Original Source: Trybuna Ludu, Feb. 19, 1956; translated from Polish into Russian in Pravda, 21 February 1956, p. 9.
In 1938 the Executive Committee of the Communist International adopted a resolution on dissolving the Communist Party of Poland in view of an accusation made at that time concerning wide-scale penetration by enemy agents into the ranks of its leading Party aktiv.
It has now been established that this accusation was based on materials which were falsified by subsequently exposed provocateurs.
After examining all the materials on this matter, the Central Committees of the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union, Italy, Bulgaria and Finland, together with the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, have come to the conclusion that the dissolution of the Polish Communist Party was groundless.
Even the above-mentioned Executive Committee resolution stressed the glorious revolutionary past of the heroic Polish proletariat and noted that thousands of Polish Communists were giving themselves and their lives to the cause of serving the working class and defending the working masses’ vital interests. Under the difficult conditions of fascist terrorism the Polish Communist Party led the struggle of Polish working people and peasants against the oppression of the capitalists and landlords, for the social and national liberation of the working people. The Polish Communist Party received and continued the glorious traditions of the joint revolutionary struggle of the Polish and Russian proletariat, consistently taking the stand of proletarian internationalism, of close cooperation with fraternal Communist and Workers’ Parties, with the international revolutionary movement.
Even after the dissolution of the Communist Party, Polish Communists actively struggled against the fascist dictatorship of the capitalists and landlords, against the impending threat of the Hitlerite aggression, utilizing all existing organizational forms of the mass workers’ and peasants’ movement.
After the Hitlerite army attacked Poland, the Polish Communists together with the left-wing socialists led the Polish people’s anti-fascist liberation struggle.
The Polish Workers’ Party, set up in 1942 by prominent leaders of the Polish Communist Party, led a wide partisan movement of workers, peasants and intelligentsia against the Hitlerite plunderers and was the founder of the Krajowa Rada Narodowa [National Council of the Homeland]. The struggle of the people’s democratic forces, headed by the Polish Workers’ Party, led under conditions of the Soviet Union’s historic victory over fascism to the establishment of the Polish People’s Republic.
In December, 1948, the Polish Workers’ Party united with the Polish Socialist Party on a Marxist-Leninist platform and formed the Polish United Workers’ Party, which is now a militant, monolithic Marxist-Leninist Party, the leading force in the struggle of the working people of people’s Poland for the building of socialism.
– Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
– Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party
– Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party
– Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party
– Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland
Source: Current Soviet Policies (New York: F. A. Praeger, 1957), Vol. II, pp. 122.