International Working People's Association

International Working People's Association
Cover of Freiheit, weekly newspaper edited by Johann Most.
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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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.