International Working People's Association
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This article is about the anarchist international. For the socialist international, see International Workingmen's Association. For the Illinois Woman's Press Association (IWPA), see Illinois Woman's Press Association.
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.
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International Working People's Association | |
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Abbreviation | IWPA |
Founded | 1881 (1881) |
Dissolved | 1887 (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 |
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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.