Socialist Workers and Peasants Party of Latvia

Latvian political party

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The Socialist Workers and Peasants Party of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Sociālistiskā Strādnieku un Zemnieku Partija, LSSZP) was a political party in Latvia. The party was an illegal underground party, formed in 1934 by the left-wing sector of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party after the ban on parties following the coup of Kārlis Ulmanis. The party was led by Ansis Rudevics [lv], who had been the chairman of the pre-split Latvian Social Democratic Workers Party.^[1]

History

The LSSZP was closely aligned with the Communist Party of Latvia. In November 1934 the two parties signed an agreement of unity in action against fascism. In 1936 the youth organizations of the two parties merged into the Workers Youth League of Latvia. In 1939 an anti-fascist popular front was formed, with the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers and Peasants Party and the Workers Youth League as its main constituents.^[1]

In August 1934 the LSSZP formed a special committee, to lead the underground Jewish socialist movement and Latvian Bund activists participated in this committee.^[2] The first LZZSP congress, held in July 1935, recognized the Bund as an autonomous organization under the same terms as the Bund had previously aligned with the Social Democrats.^[3] In November 1936 Bund activists were arrested.^[4]

The party was disbanded in July 1940 after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. p. 307
^ Aivars Stranga (1997). Ebreji un diktatūras Baltijā: 1926. - 1940. gads. N.I.M.S. p. 95. ISBN 9789984914169.
^ Vija Kaņepe (2001). Latvijas izlūkdienesti tūkstots devin̦i simti devin̦padsmitais-tūkstots devin̦i simti četrdesmitais. LU Žurnāla "Latvijas Vēsture" Fonds. p. 118. ISBN 978-9984-643-29-8.
^ Inesis Feldmanis (1993). Latvijas ārpolitika un starptautiskais stāvoklis: 30. gadu otrā puse. Latvijas ārpolitikas institūts. p. 216. ISBN 978-9984-9000-4-9.
^ Ruling Communist parties and their status under law p. 72 Ed. D. A. Loeber Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1986 ISBN 90-247-3209-3