The Labour Faction (, SP) was a Polish

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, active from 1937 in the

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and later part of the

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. Its founders and main activists were

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and Karol Popiel. The party continued its operations as part of the

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during

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(when it was code-named ''Romb''). Two politicians of the party served as heads of the

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, the civilian representatives of the

within occupied Poland, Cyryl Ratajski (1940–1942) and Jan Jankowski (1943–1945). The party was taken over by pro-soviet faction in 1946, with the rise of the

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. As a satellite party it participated in 1947 election, and continued to exist until 1950 when it merged into the Democratic Party (''Stronnictwo Demokratyczne''), an officially sanctioned party in communist Poland, also described as a "satellite" of the communist

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(PZPR). In 1989, after the

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, an attempt was made to revive the party under the name Christian Democratic Labour Party. The party should be distinguished from the Labour Party (Partia Pracy) of the same period.Eva Plach ''The clash of moral nations: cultural politics in Piłsudski's Poland, 1926-1935'' (9780821416952): - Footnote Page 205/206 2006 "Party of Work (Partia Pracy) (which had evolved from left-wing peasant party PSL-Liberation) to form the Union of Labour in Town and Village (Zjednoczenie Pracy Wsi i Miast) in June 1928. The Union of Labour in turn formed a core block within the BBWR .."

Election results

Sejm

References

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Election results

Sejm

See also

References