William Z. Foster organized the Trade Union Educational League in November 1920 as an independent network of militant unionists dedicated to reorganizing the labor movement along industrial lines. The following year, after the Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern) endorsed the concept of "boring from within" existing trade unions, the League became the American section of the Red International and the instrument of Communist activity in the labor movement. In 1929 it was replaced by a new organization, the Trade Union Unity League.


           The TUEL Constitution

           The TUEL's Criticism of the American Labor Movement

           The TUEL's Call to Action (March 1922)