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Workers Party of America was the name of the legal party organization used by the Communist Party USA
Communist Party USA

The Communist Party of the United States of America is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States.The CPUSA is based in New York City, its newspaper, originally The Daily Worker, is today the People's Weekly World, and its monthly magazine is Political Affairs Magazine....
 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
African Blood Brotherhood

The African Blood Brotherhood was a radical United States black liberation organization of the early 20th century that developed ties to the Communist Party USA....
 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
Palmer Raids

The Palmer Raids were a series of controversial raids by the United States Department of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1919 to 1921 on suspected Far left citizens and immigrants in the United States, the legality of which is now in question....
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Workers Party of America was the name of the legal party organization used by the Communist Party USA
Communist Party USA

The Communist Party of the United States of America is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States.The CPUSA is based in New York City, its newspaper, originally The Daily Worker, is today the People's Weekly World, and its monthly magazine is Political Affairs Magazine....
 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
African Blood Brotherhood

The African Blood Brotherhood was a radical United States black liberation organization of the early 20th century that developed ties to the Communist Party USA....
 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
Palmer Raids

The Palmer Raids were a series of controversial raids by the United States Department of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1919 to 1921 on suspected Far left citizens and immigrants in the United States, the legality of which is now in question....
. By 1923, the aboveground party sought to engage the Socialist Party of America
Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America was a Democratic socialism political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America which had split from the main organization in 1899....
 in united front
United front

The united front is a form of struggle that may be pursued by revolutionary socialism. The basic theory of the united front tactic was first developed by the Comintern, an international socialist organisation created by revolutionaries in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution....
 actions, but was rebuffed. Both the WPA and the SPA engaged in separate labor party efforts, prior to the Presidential election of 1924
United States presidential election, 1924

The United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President of the United States Calvin Coolidge, the History of the United States Republican Party candidate....
. The SPA participated in the Conference for Progressive Political Action
Conference for Progressive Political Action

The Conference for Progressive Political Action was officially established by the convention call of the 16 major railway labor unions in the United States, represented by a committee of six: William H....
, which dissolved itself into the Progressive Party
Progressive Party (United States, 1924)

The United States Progressive Party of 1924 was a continuation of the 1912 Progressive party with few changes in leadership at the state or local levels, and keeping many of the same officers nationally....
. The WPA succeeded in dominating the national Farmer-Labor Party
Farmer-Labor Party

The first modern Farmer-Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. Economic dislocation caused by American entry into World War I put agricultural prices and workers' wages into imbalance with rapidly escalating retail prices during the war years, and farmers and workers sought to make common cause in the political sphere...
, but that organization quickly returned to its constituent parts.

As the Comintern
Comintern

The 'Comintern' was an international Communism organization founded in Moscow in March 1919. The International intended to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the Sta...
 entered the "Third Period
Third Period

The Third Period was the policy adopted by the Comintern at the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics New Economic Policy in 1928 and was in place until the adoption of the Popular Front policy in 1935....
", 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.

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


  • Workers Party (US)
    Workers Party (US)

    The Workers Party was a Third Camp Trotskyist group in the United States. It was founded in April 1940 by members of the Socialist Workers Party who opposed the Winter War....
    . Party led by Max Shachtman
    Max Shachtman

    Max Shachtman was an United States Marxist theorist. During his lifetime, he evolved from being a Leninist associate of Leon Trotsky to an anti-Sovietism social democrat and Labor Zionist....
    . 1940-1949.
  • Workers Party, USA
    Workers Party, USA

    The Workers Party is a small left-wing political party in the United States. Based in Chicago, Illinois, the Workers Party stands on a platform of anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism, and publishes a biweekly newspaper The Worker....
    . Chicago-based organization. 1992 - present.
  • Workers Party of the United States
    Workers Party of the United States

    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....
     the name was used by the fused organisation of the Socialist Workers Party
    Socialist Workers Party (United States)

    The Socialist Workers Party is a communist political party in the United States. Established in 1938 and continuing into the 21st Century, the SWP is the oldest Trotskyism political organization currently active in the United States....
     and the American Workers Party
    American Workers Party

    The American Workers Party was a socialist organization established in December 1933 by activists in the Conference for Progressive Labor Action....
     of A. J. Muste
    A. J. Muste

    Abraham Johannes Muste was a socialist active in the pacifism, the labor movement, and the US civil rights movement....
     in 1934, prior to its temporary merger with the Socialist Party of America
    Socialist Party of America

    The Socialist Party of America was a Democratic socialism political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America which had split from the main organization in 1899....
     in 1935.


External links


  • . 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 ar. Retrieved August 23, 2006.


  • . Predecessor organization of first Workers' Party, originating in split of the Socialist Party of America. Retrieved August 23, 2006.


Workers Party publications


  • Browder, Earl
    Earl Browder

    Earl Russell Browder was an United States communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1934 to 1945. He was expelled from the party in 1946....
    . 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
    Jay Lovestone

    Jay Lovestone was at various times a member of the Socialist Party of America, a leader of the Communist Party USA, leader of a small oppositionist party, an anti-Communist and Central Intelligence Agency collaborator, and foreign policy advisor to the leadership of the AFL-CIO and various unions within it....
    . 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
    John Pepper

    John Pepper, real name J?zsef Pog?ny, also known as Joseph, was a Hungary Jewish-born Communist active in the United States. His original name was Josef Schwartz....
    , 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.
    Charles Ruthenberg

    Charles Emil "C.E." Ruthenberg was an United States Marxism politician and was a founder and long-time head of the Communist Party USA ....
      The Farmer-Labor United Front. Literature Department, Workers Party of America, Chicago. 1924.