Jewish Communist Union (Poalei Zion)
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Jewish Communist Union, Komverband was the name taken by the Left World Union of Poalei Zion in 1921. Komverband had members in Russia
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, Austria
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, Italy
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, Poland
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 and other countries. In 1922 Komverband shifted its headquarters from Vienna
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 to Danzig, in preparation for a party conference. At that conference the communists were expelled from the organization, and the Left Poalei Zion retook its former shape.

Section of Komverband included:
  • Jewish Communist Party of Austria
    Jewish Communist Party of Austria
    The Jewish Social Democratic Party "Poale Zion" , later renamed Jewish Socialist Workers Party Poale Zion in German Austria and Jewish Communist Party of Austria , was a political party in Austria. The party published Freie Tribune 1919-1921...

  • Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion)

See also

  • Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion)
    Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion)
    The Jewish Communist Labour Party was the new name, from 1922 to its dissolution in 1928, of the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party , a Zionist socialist political party founded in 1906, part of the international Poalei Zion movement.The JSDLP had suffered a major split in August 1919, when a...

  • Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion)
  • Jewish Communist Party — Poalei Zion, section of the Palestine Communist Party
  • Mifleget Poale Zion VeHaHugim HaMarksistim beEretz Yisrael
    Mifleget Poale Zion VeHaHugim HaMarksistim beEretz Yisrael
    Mifleget Poale Zion VeHaHugim HaMarksistim beEretz Yisrael was the youth group of a faction of Poale Zion, the labour Zionist movement, in Mandate Palestine in the 1930s, which later merged into the Revolutionary Communist League...

  • Poale Zion
    Poale Zion
    Poale Zion was a Movement of Marxist Zionist Jewish workers circles founded in various cities of the Russian Empire about the turn of the century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901.-Formation and early years:Poale Zion parties and organisations were started across the Jewish diaspora in the...

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