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The Workers' United Front ( et, Töörahva Ühine Väerind) was a political party in
Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
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History

The party was a front for the
Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...
, 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 1923 elections the party won 10 seats, Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p586 an increase on the five won by the Communists in the 1920 elections running under the guise of the Central Committee of Tallinn Trade Unions. For the 1926 elections the Communists ran as the
Estonian Workers' Party The Estonian Workers' Party ( et, Eesti Tööliste Partei) 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 ...
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References

{{Authority control Defunct political parties in Estonia Communist parties in Estonia