American Workers League

The American Workers League (German: Amerikanische Arbeitersbund) was an American nineteenth century workers political organization.

The league was founded in 1853 by 800 German American delegates who attended the inaugural meeting in the in Philadelphia.^[1] Among their leaders was Joseph Weydemeyer, a longtime friend of Karl Marx.^[2]^[3] The organization adopted an egalitarian membership policy holding that all workers who live in the United States without distinction of occupation, language, color, or sex can become members.^[2] They opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act because it had the effect of allowing slavery in the lands opening up in the American West.^[3]

References[]

^ "Notes on the Early History of American Communism". Worker Communist. Communist League. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Blackburn, Robin (2011). An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. London: Verso. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-84467-722-1.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Alison Clark Efford (20 May 2013). German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-107-03193-7.

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[1] "Notes on the Early History of American Communism". Worker Communist. Communist League. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 14 June 2014.

[Blackburn-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Blackburn, Robin (2011). An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. London: Verso. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-84467-722-1.

[Efford2013-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Alison Clark Efford (20 May 2013). German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-107-03193-7.

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