Workers' Communist Party

The Workers' Communist Party was the first ruling party in the UASR. Founded in 1876 under the name of the "Socialist Labor Party" during the existence of the Old United States, the party grew gradually amongst the American working class over the next few decades, absorbing Eugene V. Debs' Social Democracy of America in 1898. The SLP further absorbed the Social Democratic Party in 1908, a party created by SDA dissidents opposed to the initial merger.