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Polish-language Social Democratic monthly founded in Paris in 1893 by Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and Julian Marchlewski; the title means "The Workers' Cause". It was the intellectual centre of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland (SDKP) and attacked the independence line of the Polish Socialist Party as "social patriotism".
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At the Zurich congress of August 1893 the paper sent Luxemburg as its delegate, but the congress rejected the mandate as anonymous. The editor, Jogiches, telegraphed his name and address, but the Polish delegation led by Daszyński had already submitted a written statement branding him a "suspicious individual", and the mandate was never accepted. The congress report prepared in the paper's name, largely written by Luxemburg, argued that the endeavour to found a capitalist Polish state lacked any real basis, and set the overthrow of absolutism and a democratic constitution as the tasks for Russian Poland.
Issue no. 25 of July 1896 carried Luxemburg's "The Polish Question at the International Congress in London", published simultaneously in the Italian Critica Sociale. It attacked the Polish Socialist Party's independence resolution for the London congress, arguing that tsarism did not draw its strength from ruling Poland and that a demand without action was "a pious wish". The paper appeared in Paris in 1893–1896, and Luxemburg wrote for it mostly anonymously.