The Founding of the Red Trade Union International : Proceedings and Resolutions of the First Congress, 1921 /

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 moveme...

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Other Authors: Taber, Mike (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 334.
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Call Number: HD6475.A2

Table of Contents:
  • 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.