Mapam

Mapam - ​​United Workers' Party (Hebrew: מפ"ם - מפלגת פועלים מאוחדת ) was originally a Zionist party in Israel.

Mapam was formed on January 23, 1948 from the merger of the two left Hashomer Hatzair movement and Poalei Tzion. She was the party of the left kibbutz movement and followed the previous Hashomer Hatzair political party ( "The Young Guard " ) which was active as a party and youth movement since the 1920s, in both after. Until the mid- 1950s Mapam was behind the Mapai the second largest party in Israel.

Originally Mapam was oriented with a strong Stalinist policy in the Soviet Union, which was identified by her as the true antithesis to fascism. This changed in 1952 when anti-Semitic embossed Prague processes against Rudolf Slansky and his co-defendants, the hope shattered in Israel on the support of the USSR.

In the show trials in which the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, mainly accused their Jewish members imprisoned or liquidated, Mapam and its representative Mordechai Oren had been accused of involvement in a Zionist conspiracy in Prague. After the Prague process and later the secret speech of Nikita Khrushchev de-Stalinization, the Mapam removed by the Communist positions and was a moderate social democratic party. A greater number of Mapam leaders, among them Moshe Sneh, left the party and joined the Maki. At the same time, a right wing Mapam broke away and formed the Ahdut haAvoda party.

In 1969, the Mapam as a junior partner in the coalition Maarach ( " Merger") with the Labor Party ( Avoda ) a, in the above former rival Mapai and Ahdut haAvoda had gone up every year. In 1984 she left the Maarach in protest against the decision of Shimon Peres to form a " national unity government " with the Likud. In 1992, allied Mapam with the civil rights movement Ratz and the liberal Shinui to form the electoral coalition Meretz, which represents the Israeli peace camp. Mapam was in 1996 in the converted into a political party Meretz, which after a further merger changed its name to Meretz Jachad 2004.

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