Poalei Tziyon - (Hebrew "Workers of Zion" - Pronounced "Poh ah
lay Tseeyon") - Movement of Marxist Zionist Jewish workers
circles founded in various Russian cities about the turn of the
century. The first of these groups was the Poalei Tziyon party
in Minsk, founded in 1897. However, their ideology was not
Marxist and not identified with later Poalei Tziyon groups.
Poalei Tziyon began in earnest in Russia after the Bund rejected
Zionism in 1901. Poalei Tziyon came into existence in the USA in
1903, at the "Radical Poalei Tziyon Organization. Branches in
other countries formed between 1904 and 1907: Austria, Canada,
England, Argentina, Romania and later (1910) in Bulgaria. In the
period of 1903-05 three different tendencies competed within
Jewish socialist circles- Territorialism, autonomy (cultural and
political autonomy within a socialist state and proletarian
Zionism. From these, three parties were formed in 1905 and 1906:
The S.S. (Zionist-Socialists) the Y.S. (Jewish socialists) and
the Poalei Tziyon. In