The Founding of the Red Trade Union International

Proceedings and Resolutions of the First Congress, 1921
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71285-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 334, 768 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

The 1921 founding congress in Moscow of the Red International of Labour Unions was a historic event. That gathering set out to create an international revolutionary trade-union organisation embracing millions of workers, and it brought together a wide variety of forces within the world labour movement. Lively and at times acrimonious debates occurred at the congress with syndicalist and other currents over the purpose and tasks of trade unions, the nature of class-struggle unionism, and union strategy and tactics.

The congress proceedings, published here in a richly annotated edition, are part of a multi-volume series on the Communist International in Lenin’s time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taber, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

About This Edition

List of Abbreviations

Proceedings of the RILU First Congress

Session 1. 3July 1921, Evening

Opening Session; Greetings

Session 2. 4July 1921, Evening

Congress Organisation; Work of International Council

Session 3. 6July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Manifesto; Debate on International Council Report

Session 4. 8July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

World Economic Crisis; Trade Union Tasks and Tactics

Session 5. 9July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Credentials; RILU-Comintern Relations

Session 6. 9July 1921, Evening

RILU-Comintern Relations (continued)

Session 7. 10July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

RILU-Comintern Relations (continued)

Session 8. 11July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

RILU-Comintern Relations (continued)

Session 9. 11July 1921, Evening

RILU-Comintern Relations; Workers’ Control

Session 10. 13July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Factory Committees; Italian Question

Session 11. 13July 1921, Evening

Italian Question (continued)

Session 12. 14July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Debate on Tactics

Session 13. 14July 1921, Evening

Debate on Tactics (continued)

Session 14. 15July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Debate on Tactics (continued)

Session 15. 15July 1921, Evening

Organisation Report; Women in Unions

Session 16. 18July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Commission Reports; War Victims

Session 17. 19July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Trade Unions in East; Commission Reports; Russian Anarchists; Congress Closing

Statements Handed in to Presidium and Attached to Minutes

Congress Commissions and Central Council Session

Organisation Commission

Commission on Tactics

Commission on Workers’ Control

Central Council Session

Resolutions

Manifesto to the Workers of the World

Resolution on the Activity of the Provisional Council of Red Trade and Industrial Unions over the Past Year

Resolution on Relations between the Red Labour Union International and the Communist International

Resolution on the Italian Question

Resolution on the Tasks and Tactics of Trade Unions

Resolution on Workers’ Control

Resolution on Factory Committees

Resolution on the Organisation Question

Statutes of the Red International of Labour Unions

Resolution on the Women’s Question

Resolution on the Unemployment Question

Resolution on the Question of War Victims

Resolution on the Labour Movement in the Near and Far Eastern Countries and the Colonies

Appeal against the White Terror

To the Workers of the United Kingdom

To the Spanish Proletariat

Greetings to the Russian People

Appendix1: Amiens Charter

Appendix2: June 1920 Conference of Unionists from Britain, Italy, and Russia

Appendix3: KAPD Resolution on the Trade-Union Question

Appendix4: Women in the French Metallurgy Industry

Louise Heuchel

Chronology

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Taber is editor of The Communist Movement at a Crossroads (Brill, 2018), Fighting Fascism (Haymarket Books, 2017), and Under the Socialist Banner (Haymarket Books, 2021). He has also edited and prepared collections by Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, James P. Cannon, and Maurice Bishop.