The Left-wing Workers () was a political party in

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

History

The party was a front for the Communist Party,

Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An ex ...

& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p587 which had used umbrella organisations to participate in politics since being banned in 1918.Communist subversion against the state in the Republic of Estonia in the nineteen-twenties and thirties
Estonica In the 1932 elections it won five seats,Nohlen & Stöver, p586 a decrease on the six seats the Communists had won in the 1929 elections running under the guise of the

Estonian Workers' Party The Estonian Workers' Party () was a political party in Estonia. History The party was a front for the Communist Party, which had used umbrella organisations to participate in politics since being banned in 1918. In the 1926 elections the par ...

. Along with all others, the party was banned in 1935 following

Konstantin Päts Konstantin Päts ( – 18 January 1956) was an Estonian statesman and the country's president from 1938 to 1940. Päts was one of the most influential politicians of the independent democratic Republic of Estonia, and during the two decades p ...

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.Vincent E. McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p371

References

Defunct political parties in Estonia Communist parties in Estonia Political parties disestablished in 1935 1935 disestablishments in Estonia {{Estonia-poli-stub Banned communist parties