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Arbeiterstimme (Worker's Voice) was the central organ of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia. It appeared from 1897 to 1905, [1] as an underground publication. The Bund resumed the publication, now as a legal paper, after the February revolution. [2]

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References

  1. Lenin: The Position of the Bund in the Party
  2. Johnpoll, Bernard K. The Politics of Futility; The General Jewish Workers Bund of Poland, 1917-1943. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1967. p. 55