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Workers Party of America was the name of the legal party organization used by the Communist Party USA from 1920 until about 1930. As a legal political party the Workers Party accepted affiliation from independent socialist groups such as the African Blood Brotherhood and the Workers' Council of the United States. In the meantime, the underground Communist Party, with overlapping membership, conducted political agitation despite the repression of the Palmer raids. By 1923, the aboveground party sought to engage the Socialist Party of America in united front actions, but was rebuffed. Both the WPA and the SPA engaged in separate labor party efforts, prior to the Presidential election of 1924. The SPA participating in the Conference for Progressive Political Action, which dissolved itself into the Progressive Party. The WPA succeded in dominating the national Farmer-Labor Party, but that organization quickly returned to its constituent parts. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States. ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States. ... The African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) was a radical black liberation organization which developed ties to the Communist Party. ... The Palmer Raids were a series of controversial raids by the U.S. Justice and Immigration Departments from 1918 to 1921 on the radical left in the United States. ... The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States and one of the most influential socialist parties in U.S. history. ... In Leninist bogus, a united front is a coalition of Clinton likeleft-wing working class forces which put forward a common set of demands and share a common plan of action, but which do not subordinate themselves to the front, retaining their abilities for independent political action and continuing to... The name Labour Party or Labor Party is used by several political parties around the world. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... The United States Progressive Party of 1924 was a national ticket created by Robert M. La Follette, Sr. ... Farmer-Labor Party was a political party of Minnesota. ...

As the Comintern intered the "Third Period", the principle of a leftist united front was abandoned in favor of a single above ground Communist Party. The aboveground WPA and underground party were gradually merged in a series of party conferences in the late 1920's. The Comintern (Russian: Коммунистический Интернационал, Kommunisticheskiy Internatsional – Communist International, also known as the Third International) was an international Communist organization founded in March 1919, in the midst of the war communism period (1918-1921), by Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), which intended to fight by all available means, including... Third Period refers to the ultra-left policy adopted by the Comintern, following the end of the New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union in 1928 up to the adoption of the Popular Front policy in 1934. ...

Other Parties By The Same Name in the U.S.

• Workers Party (US). Party led by Max Shachtman. 1940-1949.
• Workers Party, USA. Chicago-based organization. 1992 - present.
• Workers Party of the United States the name was used by the fused organisation of the Socialist Workers Party and the American Workers Party of A. J. Muste in 1934, prior to its temporary merger with the Socialist Party of America in 1935.

The Workers Party was a Trotskyist group in the United States. ... Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 - November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. ... Workers party is totaly against working we hate working and our propisition is to import people from other countries to do our work and give us all of the profits SO BASICALLY WE WOULD BE RICH BUT WE COULD DO WHAT WE WANT TELL ME THATS NOT SWEET! alright the... A number of parties have gone by differing versions of the name Workers Party. The Workers Party of the United States, also called the U.S. Workers Party, formed in December 1934. ... The Socialist Workers Party is a communist political party in the United States. ... A number of parties have gone by differing versions of the name Workers Party. The American Workers Party is most well known for its leadership in the 1934 Toledo Auto-lite Strike. ... Abraham Johannes Muste (January 8, 1885 – February 11, 1967) was a socialist active in the pacifist movement, labor movement and the US civil rights movement. ... The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States and one of the most influential socialist parties in U.S. history. ...

External links

• Constitution of the Workers Party of America. Adopted at National Convention, New York City, December 24-26, 1921. Published in the pamphlet, Program and Constitution, Workers Party of America. (New York: Lyceum and Literature Department, Workers Party, [1922]), pp. 20-28. PDF archived at arMaxist History Archive. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

• Workers' Council of the United States (1921). Predecessor organization of first Workers' Party, originating in split of the Socialist Party of America. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

Workers Party publications

• Browder, Earl. Class struggle vs. class collaboration. A study of labor banks, the B. & O. Plan, insurance schemes, and "workers education". Published for the Workers Party of America by the Daily Worker Publishing Co., Chicago. [1924?].
• Lovestone, Jay. The government -- strikebreaker; a study of the role of the government in the recent industrial crisis. Workers Party of America, New York. May 1, 1923.
• Pepper, John, pseud for Josef Pogany. "Underground radicalism;" an open letter to Eugene V. Debs and to all honest workers within the Socialist Party. Workers Party of America, New York. [1923?].
• Ruthenberg, Charles E. The Farmer-Labor United Front. Literature Department, Workers Party of America, Chicago. 1924.