Polish Socialist Party
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The Polish Socialist Party (Polska Partia Socjalistyczna, PPS) was one of the most important Polish left-wing political parties from its inception in 1892 until 1948.
In 1948 it suffered a fatal split, as the communist applied the salami tactics to dismember any opposition. One faction, which included Osóbka-Morawski, wanted to join forces with the Polish Peasant Party and form a united front against the Communists. Another faction, led by Józef Cyrankiewicz, argued that the Socialists should support the Communists in carrying through a socialist program, while opposing the imposition of one-party rule. Pre-war political hostilities continued to influence events, and Stanisław Mikołajczyk, leader of te Peasant Party, would not agree to form a united front with the Socialists. The Communists played on these divisions by dismissing Osóbka-Morawski and making Cyrankiewicz Prime Minister. In 1948, the Communists and Cyrankiewicz's faction of Socialists merged with the communist Polish Workers' Party (PPR) to form the Polish United Workers' Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; PZPR), the ruling party in the People's Republic of Poland; remenants of the other faction survived on emigration in the Polish government in exile.
A new party of the same name, which intends to carry on the tradition of the original PPS, was established by left-wing oppositionals such as Jan Jozef Lipski in 1987. However, the new PPS remains a marginal group within the political landscape of the Third Republic.
It's main propaganda outlet was the Robotnik ('The Worker') newspaper.
Józef Piłsudski, founder of the resurrected Polish state, was a member and later leader of the PPS.
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