Polish Communist Party (2002)

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The Polish Communist Party (Polish: Polska Partia Komunistyczna), or the Communist Party of Poland (Polish: Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP), is a Marxist-Leninist party in Poland. It was founded in 2002 by former members of the Union of Polish Communists "Proletariat" (Polish: Związek Komunistów Polskich „Proletariat”), a Marxist-Leninist party that functioned between 1990 and 2002, and was ultimately banned in 2002. In 2013, the KPP co-founded the Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties, and cooperated with minor socialist and left-wing nationalist parties such as the Polish Labour Party, Polish Socialist Party, and the Democratic Party of the Left. The party battled constant attempts at outlawing it; on 3 December 2025, the Constitutional Tribunal declared the party's program to go against the 1997 Polish Constitution for promoting totalitarianism, and the KPP was formally banned on 30 December 2025. On 17 April 2026, the party was reinstated, as the Constitutional Ruling was deemed...

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