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The '''Temporary Coordinating Commission of Confederated Independence Parties''' ({{langx|pl|Komisja Tymczasowa Skonfederowanych Stronnictw Niepodległościowych}}, '''KTSSN''') formed on 10 November 1912 in the [[Austrian Partition]] on the eve of [[World War I]].<ref name="Biskupski">{{cite book |title=Independence Day: Myth, Symbol, and the Creation of Modern Poland |author=M.B.B. Biskupski |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDxoAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA8&pg=PA8#q=KTSSN |chapter=Temporary Coordinating Commission of Confederated Independence Parties (KTSSN) |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2012 |isbn=978-0191633409 |pages=8–9}}</ref> It was an alliance of Polish political parties from [[Galicia (Central Europe)|Galicia]] in [[Austro-Hungary]] and their paramilitary wings existing in the form of legal [[Riflemen's Association]]s.<ref name="Biskupski"/> Created in [[Vienna]], KTSSN was later renamed as ''Komisja Skonfederowanych Stronnictw Niepodległościowych'' (KSSN, or the Commission of Confederated Independence Parties).
On 1 December 1912 KTSSN chose [[Józef Piłsudski]] to head its military arm, based on [[Riflemen's Association]] ("Strzelec"). Its goal was to coordinate the pro-Polish independence activities and support Austro-Hungary in the [[World War I|expected war]]. In case of the war its aim was to create a unified government for the territories liberated from the [[partitions of Poland|Russian partition of Poland]].
It was created by the following parties: [[Polish Socialist Party]], [[Polish Social Democratic Party of Galicia]], ''Związek Patriotów'', ''Związek Chłopski'', ''Narodowy Związek Chłopski'', [[Polish People's Party]] (after 1913 ''PSL Lewica''), [[National Workers' Union (Poland)|National Workers' Union]] (until May 1914), ''Związek Niepodległości'' (from May 1914 known as ''Organizacja Niepodległościowa Inteligencji'').
Its main activists were: [[Józef Piłsudski]], [[Ignacy Daszyński]], Witold Jodko-Narkiewicz, [[Władysław Sikorski]], [[Walery Sławek]], Hipolit Śliwiński, and [[Leon Wasilewski]]. Commeettee's ties with the Austrian government and Anti-Russian policies were unpopular. In May 1914 KSSN some of the parties left KSSN; Riflemen's Association "Strzelec" also withdrew its support. On 16 August 1914 KSSN was replaced by the interim government of the re-emerging sovereign Poland, the [[Supreme National Committee]] (''Naczelny Komitet Narodowy'').
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