Anniversary of Youth Reactivation of All Poland

Situation in the PRL

Although the Youth of All Poland was the most many academic organization before the war, after 1945 the National Movement had to stay hidden. Most leaders of the National organization and of the All-Polish Youth, if not killed straight in the fight against Germany, were murdered by communists in post-war Poland. A large number of nationalists besides remained on emigration in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. Shortly after the war, Communist panic led by the safety Office liquidated successive leaders of the National Movement. Tadeusz Łabędzki, among others, died in UB actions. Adama Humer, Lech Haydukiewicz, Jan Morawiec, and older activists Włodzimierz Marszewski and Adam Doboszyński. Their murderers were Berman, Light, Michnik, Rozanski, Wolinska and Fejgin. As judaic communists, they equalized the “accounts of harm” allegedly suffered during the interwar period.

Reactivation after systemic transformation

Poles had to wait until December 1989 for the return of the All-Polish Youth. Reactivation of the All-Polish Youth was preceded by publishing activity. In December 1988, the magazine “Youth of All Poland” appeared in Poznań, in which authors published classics of national thought, including Dmowski's thought and many others. In January 1989, a magazine was published for advanced school students – "Gymnasialist".

All the above publishing initiatives were directed by Roman Giertych, then a student of the past of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He was a associate of the Polish Academic Union (PZA), but already at that time he thought about reactivation of the All-Polish Youth. Since June 1989, Roman Giertych founded the first organizational cells. Reactivation was performed at the Founding Assembly on December 2, 1989. Delegates for the convention gathered at Collegium Novum of Poznań University. The gathering began reading the letter from Vice president of the Ministry of abroad Affairs in 1930 – 1931 patron Jack Nikisch. The main lecture was given by Roman Gierty, in which he emphasized the above-class nature of the organization.

Following the meeting, an Ideowa Declaration and an MW message were adopted, which included the introduction “... We want to mention to the tradition of a pre-war organization of the same name as the National Movement, and especially the achievements of Roman Dmowski's political thought...” and adopted 4 programme bases:

1. Catholic ethics apply in private and public life.
2. Building Poland's economy on universal private property and stopping abroad capital of national property.
3. Poland should be governed by Poles in accordance with proven Piasov traditions rooted in Latin civilization and in the Roman Catholic Church. We cut off all leftist traditions.
4. We are opposed to the constantly present and inactive present threat from Germany.

Young people of All Poland have not avoided political work since 1989, although its primary task was and is formation work. Many times the All-Polates have assisted in the National Party's electoral campaigns. From nationwide shares, the MW gained considerable publicity thanks to opposition to the European Union, illegal buy-out of Polish land and unfair privatisation.

Youths of All Poland today

Since these events, 34 years have passed, and Youth of All Poland has again become the largest national organization in the country. Currently, it brings together over a 1000 activists, who actively advance the national idea, train leaders of social and political work and organize nationwide actions, specified as the independency March, the Valentine's Day action “I Love Poland”, the March of the Cursed Soldiers, the Walk of the Wave of Life organized on the planet People's Day with Down's Team, the March of triumph commemorating the triumph over the Bolsheviks and many charity actions specified as the Package for Kresowiak, organizing a shipment of packages to the most deprived people surviving in the east Borders in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.