In 1941-1942 he was a member of the Association of Friends of the Soviet Union and later joined the Polish Workers' Party shortly after its foundation.
He was member of the anti-Nazi resistance in Poland and was a soldier in Gwardia Ludowa and also participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
[1] After World War II he was a high ranking functionary in the PPR and later the Polish United Workers' Party.
From November 1952 to March 1954 Dworakowski was Deputy Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland in the government of Bolesław Bierut.
After the Polish October, Dworakowski was one of the politicians who were against the Gomułka reforms and eventually created the Natolin faction alongside other party hardliners.