Pittsburgh Manifesto

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To the Workingmen of America, known as the Pittsburgh Manifesto or Pittsburgh Proclamation, is an anarchist manifesto issued at the October 1883 Pittsburgh Congress of the International Working People's Association. [1] [2] After the organization faded, the manifesto remained generally accepted by American anarchists as a clear articulation of their beliefs. [3]

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