Zygmunt Zaremba
Zygmunt Witalis Zaremba, pseudonyms Andrzej Czarski, Wit Smrek, was a Polish socialist activist and publicist.
Biography
Zaremba was a member of the Youth Association for Progress and Independence, Polish Socialist Party - Opposition, then was a member of the Polish Socialist Party and its Central Executive Committee.From 1918 onward, he stayed in Poland. Then, he became a 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.
From 1922–35, he was a deputy in the Sejm. During the invasion of Poland in 1939, he organised the Robotnicza Brygada Obrony Warszawy. Zaremba was a co-founder of conspiratory Polish Socialist Party - Freedom-Equality-Independence.
From 1944–45, he was a 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 edited Robotnik, Pobudka, and Związkowiec, as well as the journals Światło and Droga.