Left-wing Workers

Estonia
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The Left-wing Workers (Estonian: Pahempoolsed töölised ja kehvikud) was a political party in Estonia.

History

The party was a front for the Communist Party,[1] which had used umbrella organisations to participate in politics since being banned in 1918.[2] In the 1932 elections it won five seats,[3] a decrease on the six seats the Communists had won in the 1929 elections running under the guise of the Estonian Workers' Party.[1]

Along with all others, the party was banned in 1935 following Konstantin Päts's self-coup.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p587 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ↑ Communist subversion against the state in the Republic of Estonia in the nineteen-twenties and thirties Estonica
  3. ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p586
  4. ↑ Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p371 ISBN 0-313-23804-9
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