Kazimierz Badowski

Kazimierz Badowski
Born	(1907-08-15)August 15, 1907 Regów Stary, Congress Poland
Died	July 6, 1990(1990-07-06) (aged 82) Kraków, Poland
Resting place	Rakowicki Cemetery
Occupation	Dockworker
Organization	International Revolutionary Current
Known for	Resisting Stalinism
Political party	Communist Party of Poland
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Belgium
Movement	Trotskyism
Criminal charges	Subversion
Criminal penalty	3 years imprisonment
Parents	Konrad Badowski (father) Balbina née Wosatko (mother)

Kazimierz Badowski (15 August 1907, Regów Stary – 6 July 1990) was a Polish Communist activist.

Life

Career

Working as a docker in Gdańsk, he rose through the ranks of the trade union movement to become a figure in the Communist Party of Poland. In 1925, he left the party in the face of what he saw as an increasingly Stalinist ideological outlook. He became a Trotskyist, founding the International Revolutionary Current, an informal network of various anti-Stalinist, Trotskyist and other Marxist organisations. He was able to survive all of the Nazi concentration camps only to be imprisoned by Stalin in the early 1950s and again from 1962 to 1964.

He promoted Esperanto as part of the Trotskyist movement.

Death

He died in 1990, living his later years paralysed and unable to communicate.

Badowski's tombstone at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Krakow

External links

• Hass, Ludwik (Winter 1995–1996). Richardson, Al (ed.). "Against All Odds - True to the Ideals of his Youth". Revolutionary History. 6 (1). ISSN 0953-2382.