Union of Polish Syndicalists
- Union of Polish Syndicalists
Union of Polish Syndicalists ( _pl. Związek Syndykalistów Polskich, ZSP) was a Polish civilian-military conspirational organization, active between April of 1941 and mid-1945. It was based on the left wing-syndicalist association "Freedom and People", founded in Warsaw on October 21, 1939.
Association "Freedom and People" had two wings - military and civilian, its objective was presented in official declaration "Kupujmy broń" ("Let us purchase weapons"). In December 1939 first armed units (called "Polish Syndicalist Units Freedom and People") were created. They consisted of small 3-5-persons groups, which cooperated with the Association of Armed Struggle
In April 1941 "Freedom and People" was renamed into the "Union of Polish Syndicalists", and in the summer of next year a group of officers decided to leave the Union and enter the Home Army. As a result, military wing had to be re-created almost from scratch. In October 1942 first Assaul Unit "Zew" was organized, and it was subject to headquarters of the Home Army.
Union of Polish Syndicalists also issued several conspirational magazines (such as "Akcja", "Sprawa", "Czyn", "Sprawa Chłopska", "Myśl Młodych", "Dekada", "Iskra"), in the fall of 1942 it co-created the "Front of the Patriotic Left". In its program, created in 1943, it supported among others moving borders of Poland westwards, to the Oder-Neisse line, while at the same time preserving pre-1939 eastern borders of the country as well as close cooperation with other Slavic nations.
During the Warsaw Uprising, the Union created the 104th Company of Syndicalists under Kazimierz Puczyński, which fought in Warsaw’s Old Town. After World War Two, it supported the Soviet-backed State National Council and Polish Committee of National Liberation and dissolved itself some time in mid-1945.
ee also
* Polish contribution to World War II
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