Polish Socialist Party - Leftist

1906-1918

PPS - Lefty was founded in Vienna in 1906 after the IX Congress of PPS , when the majority of the governing body of the PPS passed to the left. After that, Jozef Pilsudski and other leaders of the PPS Combat Organization (BO PPS) refused to obey the party leadership. Associated members of the right-wing faction of the "old" left the congress three days before its end, and then organized a conference in Krakow , at which they announced the creation of a separate party called " PPS - revolutionary faction ." Then the leaders of the left faction of the “young” took the name “PPS - Lefty”, choosing Felix Kohn as the chairman of the PPS Central Committee.

At the Tenth Congress in Teszyn in December 1907 and in January 1908, the PPS leftist side abandoned the idea of ​​the immediate liberation of Poland , hoping with the help of Russian left organizations to overthrow the tsarist regime by means of a workers' revolution and build a democratic republic. PPS-Levitsa participated in the elections in a coalition with the Bund , in 1912 held her deputy Yevgeny Yagello in the Fourth Duma .

During the First World War, the teaching staff — Lefty — proclaimed pacifism , participated in the 1915 International Zimmerwald Conference and in 1916 the Kienthal Conference.

The party ceased to exist on December 16, 1918 , when the Communist Workers Party of Poland was founded as a result of the union of the PPS - the leftist and the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL). Only the “boat group” (the Lodz group) of A. Shcherkovsky, the “Workers' Opposition”, transferred to the PPS (revolutionary faction) .

1926-1931

The second time a party with the same name arose after the PPS in May 1926 supported the Pilsudski coup. At a conference in Krakow on June 13, 1926, the left faction separated from the PPS, creating a party under the historical name “PPS - Lefty”. The party was heavily influenced by the Communist Party of Poland , and therefore, in February 1931, the Polish police arrested all the delegates of the Second Congress. The party was dissolved, part of its members returned to the faculty, part joined the checkpoint, part of the Independent Socialist Labor Party .

1906-1918

• The main figures: Thaddeus Rekhnevsky , Felix Kon , Eugene Jagello , Stefan Krulikovsky , Ludwik Kshivitsky , Jan Strozhetsky (Stefan Gromada), Maria Koshutskaya (Vera Kostsheva), Maximilian Horvits ( Henryk Walecki ), Marian Beletsky, Bernard Shapiro, Stanislav Hempel, Antoni Scherkovsky, Estera Golde, Natalia Gonserovskaya-Grabovsky;
• Boleslav Bierut was also a member of this party.

1926-1931

• Key figures: Tadeusz Dymowski , Stanislav Berent , Wlodzimierz Sokorski , Andrzej Chuma, Alfred Brunon Böhm, Romuald Gadomsky, Frantisek Polka

The party's official press organs were:

1906-1918

• newspapers “Robotnik” ( Polish: Robotnik , “Worker”), “Glos Robotniczy” ( Głos Robotniczy , “Work Voice”);
• the weeklies Vedza ( Wiedza , “Knowledge”), “ New Life ” ( Nowe Życie, “New Life”), “Svyatlo” ( Światło , “Light”), “Kuznya” ( Kuźnia , “The Forge”);
• the journal “The Socialist Thought” ( Myśl Socjalistyczna , “Socialist Thought”);

1926-1931

• “Robociarz” ( Robociarz , “Worker”), “Glos praci” ( Głos Pracy , “Voice of Labor”).

• Słownik historii Polski / (red.) Tadeusz Łepkowski . - Warsz. : Wiedza Powszechna, 1973.- 941 p.
• PPS-Lewica w latach wojny 1914-1918 / Feliks Tych. - Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1960 .-- 237 p.
• PPS 1892-1992 / Roman Stefanowski. - Warszawa: Książka i Prasa, 1992 .-- 204 p. ISBN 83-900401-3-1

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