The Silesian Socialist Party was a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Silesia

Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. The party was founded on May 1, 1928, by Józef Biniszkiewicz

Józef Biniszkiewicz

Józef Biniszkiewicz was a Silesian socialist politician. In 1891 he moved to Berlin, Germany, were he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany . On July 3, 1895, he shifted his party membership to the Polish Socialist Party in Prussia and would became the chairman of the PPS zp branch in...

. When the new party was founded, it took over the regional PPS organ Robotnik Śląski ('Silesian Worker').

Biniszkiewicz had been the leader of the Polish Socialist Party

Polish Socialist Party

The Polish Socialist Party was one of the most important Polish left-wing political parties from its inception in 1892 until 1948...

 (PPS) in Upper Silesia

Upper Silesia

Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as of...

, but had been expelled from the party for not supporting the opposition of PPS against the Piłsudski government, and for opposing cooperation with German socialist parties. The ŚPS was seen as pro-Sanacja

Sanacja

Sanation was a Polish political movement that came to power after Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 Coup d'État. Sanation took its name from his watchword—the moral "sanation" of the Polish body politic...

.

The party, which failed to get a prominent role in Silesian politics, was dissolved in 1930.