Faction independent of Labour Unity
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The Faction independent of Labour Unity (Hebrew: סיעה בלתי תלויה באחדות העבודה, Sia Bilti Talouya BeAkhdut HaAvoda) was a short-lived political party in Israel.
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The Faction independent of Labour Unity was formed in 1953 (during the second Knesset) as a breakaway from Mapam in the aftermath of the Prague Trials. The show trials in which mostly Jewish leaders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia were purged, falsely implicated Mapam's envoy in Prague, Mordechai Oren, as part of a Zionist conspiracy. This, and later Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech at the 20th Party Congress in the Soviet Union, led to Mapam moving away from some of their more radical left wing positions, and towards social democracy.
Unhappy with the move, several Mapam MKs left the party; Rostam Bastuni, Avraham Berman and Moshe Sneh established the Left Faction and Moshe Aram, Israel Bar-Yehuda, Yitzhak Ben-Aharon and Aharon Zisling set up Labour Unity - Poale Zion, recreating the old party that had merged into Mapam.
However, Hannah Lamdan and David Livschitz did not wish to join the new Labour Unity party, so created the Faction independent of Labour Unity.
Ultimately, the party was short-lived, and did not survive to fight the 1955 elections as Lamdan and Livschitz decided to join Mapai and close the party down before the vote.
