Progressive Era Repression and persecution Anti-war and civil rights movements Contemporary The Social-Democratic Workingmen's Party of North America[a] (SDWP or SDWPNA) was a Lassallist socialist party.
In 1868, German-speaking members of the International Workingmen's Association in America (IWA) in New York City create the Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein (ADAV, General German Labor Association).
[2] SDWP founders included Pyotr Lavrov[2] and Adolph Strasser, who served as its executive secretary.
[5] This encouraged Marxists within the organization to promote trade union membership over electoral participation, which they won at the 1875 convention.
[8] If dated from the formation of the ADAV, the SDWP was the second socialist party created in the world, after the General German Workers' Association of Ferdinand Lassalle.