General Jewish Labour Party

The General Jewish Labour Party (Yiddish: אלגעמײנע ײדישע ארבעטס-פארטיי, Algemeyne Yidishe Arbets-Partei, abbreviated A.Y.A.P, Polish: Ogólnożydowska Partia Pracy, abbreviated OŻPP) was a Jewish socialist political party in Poland. The party was founded in Lviv in November 1931 by a leftwing group of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland in East Galicia, which upheld the idea of dictatorship of the proletariat, a faction of the Poale Zion Left and young left-wing Zionists. The party was aligned with the Communist Party of Poland.[1][2] The party called for a workers' government, equality for Jewish working people, education in Yiddish language for Jewish children in state schools, abolition of discrimination in the labour market and to struggle against anti-semitism.[3]

General Jewish Labour Party
אלגעמײנע ײדישע ארבעטס-פארטיי
Ogólnożydowska Partia Pracy
FoundedNovember 1931
BannedJuly 1934
Merged intoCommunist Party of Poland
IdeologySocialism
Political positionLeft-wing
Poster of A.Y.A.P. for May Day 1934
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The party was led by Zigmunt Stein.[4]

The party was banned by the Ministry of Interior on July 16, 1934, a move welcomed by mainstream Jewish leaders in East Galicia.[2][3] Several activists of the party were imprisoned for being members of the party. The party later merged into the Communist Party of Poland.[4]

References
  1. Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. p. 318
  2. Marcus, Joseph. Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939. Berlin: Mouton Publishers, 1983. p. 284
  4. "Sambir, Ukraine".
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