[4] However, although the International Socialist Party had pledged to merge into the Czechoslovak social democracy, it was politically closer to the Marxist left.
[4] The founding party congress elected a Central Executive Committee consisting of Ivan Mondok (Mukachevo), K. Syuto (Uzhgorod), I. Balash (Chop), F. Astalosh (Svalyava) and M. Shimon (Berehove).
[4] Outside the congress venue, some 600 workers gathered to greet the delegates and celebrate first anniversary of the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
[4] Hungarian-speaking urban Jews had played a key role in the leadership in the Hungarian Soviet Republic in Subcarpathian Rus', and after the annexation of the area by Czechoslovak forces many joined the International Socialist Party.
The party organized mass protests in at Uzhgorod, Mukachevo, Svalyava, Perechyn, Berehove, Khust, Solotvyno and Velikiy Bychkov, calling for wage increase, land reform, end to military rule, release of political prisoners and workers' control over industries.