Socialist Workers and Peasants Party of Latvia

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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

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]

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