Peter Fox

International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1830–1869 ○ Illness

Journalist who, with Marx, was the General Council's non-worker member and its Corresponding Secretary for America

Born into a wealthy family as Peter Fox André, he became an atheist and married a working-class woman, and was disowned. He came to prominence as publisher of the secularist National Reformer, followed Comte's Religion of Humanity, and was a leading figure in the British National League for the Independence of Poland and on the executive of the Reform League. A founding member of the International Workingmen's Association in 1864, he served on its General Council continuously and as its press representative from 1865; apart from Marx he was the only regular non-worker member of the council. He became Corresponding Secretary to America in May 1866 and, when Cremer suddenly stood down that September, filled the General Secretary's post until November. In growing conflict with Marx, he resigned in 1867, moved to Vienna and died of a pulmonary disease in 1869.

Also known as: Peter André Fox