Proletarian Party of American records, 1925-1968.

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Proletarian Party of American records, 1925-1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796378

Collection consists mainly of the correspondence of National Secretary Al Wysocki, but includes some drafts of articles and advertisements.

3.3 linear ft.

University of Michigan

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SNAC Resource ID: 7973761

University of Michigan

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Proletarian Party of America.

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Political group formed in Wayne, Michigan in 1920, with roots in the old Socialist Party of America. This "Michigan faction" was expelled from Communist Party shortly after its founding in 1919, in part for its "consistent adherence to majority action and repudiation of the Communist Party's minority action concept." The party moved its headquarters to Chicago in 1925 where it maintained an office until disbanding in 1968. From the description of Proletarian Party of American records...

Wysocki, Alfred

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Charles H. Kerr Company

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Chicago labor and socialist publishing house founded in 1886 by Charles Hope Kerr. The firm is best known for its editions of socialist classics, including the first American Enlish language edition of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, and its periodical, the International Socialist Review. Kerr authors included such well-known radicals as Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, Jack London, Mary E. Marcy, Joe Hill, Clarence Darrow, Sen Katayama, Antonio Labriola, V.I. Lenin, Frederich Engels...