International Working People's Association | |
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 Cover of Freiheit, weekly newspaper edited by Johann Most. | |
| Abbreviation | IWPA |
| Founded | 1881 |
| Dissolved | 1887 |
| Split from | Socialist Labor Party of America |
| Preceded by | Anarchist International International Workingmen's Association (IWA) (claimed) |
| Succeeded by | International Anarchist Congress |
| Newspaper | Freiheit |
| Membership (1883) | 5,000 |
| Ideology | Insurrectionary anarchism Anarcho-collectivism Anarcho-communism Chicago idea |
| Political position | Far-left |
The International Working People's Association (IWPA), sometimes known as the "Black International," and originally named the "International Revolutionary Socialists",[1] was an international anarchist political organization established in 1881 at a convention held in London, England.
In the United States, the group was created by an 1881 congress in Chicago, Illinois held by the New York Social Revolutionary Club. The US IWPA is best remembered as the political organization uniting Albert Parsons, August Spies, and other anarchist leaders prosecuted in the wake of the 1886 Haymarket bombing.
- ^ Parsons, Albert; Parsons, Lucy (1889). Life of Albert R. Parsons, with Brief History of the Labor Movement in America. L.E. Parsons. p. 19.