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International Workingmen's Association

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noun

  1. official name of the First International.


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In January 1865, Marx wrote to Lincoln on behalf of the International Workingmen’s Association, a group for socialists, communists, anarchists and trade unions, to “congratulate the American people upon your reelection.”

From Washington Post Jul. 27, 2019

He was actually good at running the show—as an editor and, later on, as the dominant figure in the International Workingmen’s Association, known as the First International.

From The New Yorker Oct. 3, 2016

He relies as far as possible upon the Rules of the International Workingmen's Association.

From Anarchism and Socialism by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

The International Workingmen's Association now embraces the labor movement of all the leading countries of the world.

From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth

When the International Workingmen's Association was formed, he joined it as one of its first members; indeed, he mainly helped to establish it.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

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