Kornel Morawiecki

Who is Kornel Morawiecki?

Kornel Morawiecki - was the founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity one of the more radical splinters of Solidarity movement in Poland, during the 1980s. His academic background is that of a theoretical physicist.

He was the son of Michał and Jadwiga. He graduated from the gimnazjum of Adam Mickiewicz in 1958 in Warsaw. He finished a higher degree in physics at the University of Warsaw in 1958. He finished his doctorate under Jan Rzewuski in Quantum Field Theory in 1970. He worked as a researcher at the University of Wrocław, at first in the Institute of Physics, later in Mathematics. After 1973, he worked at the Wrocław Polytechnic.

In 1968 he took part in student strikes and demonstrations. After the repression of the student protests, together with a group of close friends he edited, printed and distributed pamphlets which denounced the communists government for their repressions against the protesting students.

Since 1979, together with Jan Waszkiewicz he became the editor of the Biuletyn Dolnośląski, an underground newspaper. He was a delegate to the First National Congress of NSZZ Solidarity.