 He founded a new communist party, the Communist Party of Poland (Mijal), declared himself Secretary General of the "Temporary Central Committee of the Communist Party of Poland" and took control of Radio Tirana's Polish wing.With the Sino-Albanian split in 1978, Mijal gave up on the party and secretly returned to Poland in 1983.He was arrested in 1984 for distributing pamphlets but was released after three months.