{{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Union of Polish Syndicalists ( pl, Związek Syndykalistów Polskich, ZSP) was a Polish civilian-military conspiratorial organization, active between April 1941 and mid-1945 in

Nazi occupied Poland Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Naz ...

. It was based on the left wing of the syndicalist association ''Freedom and People'', founded in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

on October 21, 1939. Association ''Freedom and People'' (Wolność i Lud, WiL) had two wings - military and civilian. Its objectives were presented in official declaration ''Kupujmy broń'' (''Let us buy weapons''). In December 1939 the first armed units (called ''Polish Syndicalist Units Freedom and People'') were created. They consisted of small 3-5-persons groups, which cooperated with the

Związek Walki Zbrojnej Związek Walki Zbrojnej (abbreviation: ''ZWZ''; Union of Armed Struggle;Thus rendered in Norman Davies, ''God's Playground: A History of Poland'', vol. II, p. 464. also translated as ''Union for Armed Struggle'', ''Association of Armed Struggl ...

(Association of Armed Struggle, ZWZ). In April 1941 ''Freedom and People'' was renamed to ''The Union of Polish Syndicalists'', and in the summer of next year a group of officers decided to leave the Union and enter the general anti-Nazi organization, the

Home Army The Home Army ( pl, Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK; ) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) esta ...

(Armia Krajowa, AK). As a result, the military wing of WiL had to be re-created almost from scratch. In October 1942 first Assault Unit ''Zew'' was organized, and it was subject to headquarters of the Home Army. Union of Polish Syndicalists also issued several conspiratorial 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 issues, moving the borders of Poland westward to the Oder-Neisse line, while at the same time preserving pre-1939 eastern borders of the country. It also supported close cooperation with other Slavic nations. During the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occ ...

, the Union created the 104th Company of Syndicalists under Kazimierz Puczyński, which fought in Warsaw's Old Town. After World War II, it supported the Soviet-backed

State National Council Krajowa Rada Narodowa in Polish (translated as State National Council or Homeland National Council, abbreviated to KRN) was a parliament-like political body created during the later stages of World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, Poland. It was ...

(KRN) and

Polish Committee of National Liberation The Polish Committee of National Liberation (Polish: ''Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego'', ''PKWN''), also known as the Lublin Committee, was an executive governing authority established by the Soviet-backed communists in Poland at the lat ...

(KPWN) and dissolved itself some time in mid-1945.

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