Zygmunt Zaremba


Zygmunt Witalis Zaremba, pseudonyms Andrzej Czarski, Wit Smrek, was Polish socialist activist and publicist.

Biography

Zaremba was member of the Youth Association for Progress and Independence, Polish Socialist Party - Opposition, then member of the Polish Socialist Party and its Central Executive Committee.
Since 1918 he stayed in Poland. Then, he was member of Polish Socialist Party authorities – Supreme Council and Central Executive Committee. During the years of 1921–1924 he was a vice-president of its Supreme Council.
In the years of 1922–1935 Zaremba was a deputy of a Sejm. During the Invasion of Poland he organised the Robotnicza Brygada Obrony Warszawy. Zaremba was a co-founder of conspiratory Polish Socialist Party - Freedom-Equality-Independence and its administration member. In the years of 1944–1945 representative of the Council of National Unity. In 1946 he moved to Paris, where he became a president of the Central Committee of the Polish Socialist Party. In 1949 he co-founded Political Council in London. He was a president and co-founder of the International Socialist Office and then, until 1964, president of the Central-East Socialist Europe Union.
Zaremba was a co-author of Program Polski Ludowej. He was an editor of party-press Robotnik, Pobudka, Związkowiec. Also an editor of Światło and Droga.

Notable works

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