Born in to a poor peasant family, he Graduated from a Tradesmen's Association Commercial School in
Warsaw. Prior to WW2, Mijal was a bank clerk and a trade union activist. He was a sympathizer to the communist movement in Poland, yet he was not a member of the
Communist Party. After marrying the communist activist and painter , Mijal became politically active during
World War II, joining the clandestine communist organization "Proletariusz", and aided in founding the
Polish Workers' Party, collaborating with
Paweł Finder,
Marceli Nowotko and
Bolesław Bierut. Mijal is credited with organizing attacks carried out by the
People's Guard, during the
Nazi occupation of Poland., publishing the article "Long Live Mao Tsetung Thought" and "The Significance of Theory of Three Worlds shortly following his arrival. Mijal became unsatisfied with the rule of
Hua Guofeng following the
Sino-Albanian split in 1978, and
Deng Xiaoping's seizure of power in 1981. Mijal secretly returned to
Poland in 1983. ==References==