Rupture avecle bakouninisme et la fin de la AIT 'anti-autoritaire'. English
Notes:
Translation from the French, notes and appendices A. W. Zurbrugg. Includes bibliographic references and index.
Contents:
Author's preface -- Translators' preface -- Introductory note -- Introduction. Key questions : The question of the conquest of power -- The question of programme -- Practical experiences of solidarity -- Action and organisation -- The Alliance -- Organisation and the proletariat -- Trades Sections and Central Sections -- Bakunin's viewpoint summarised. After the commune : The London Conference, 17-23 September 1871 -- Reactions to the London Conference -- The Fifth congress of the International, The Hague, September 1872 -- The Alliance for Socialist Democracy and the IWA -- Two Congresses in Saint-Imier, September 1872 -- The reaction of the General Council of New York. The collapse of the Marxist International : The International in Germany -- The IWA Congress in Geneva, 1 September 1873 -- Reactions from the General Council in New York -- The "anti-authoritarian" response -- The Congress of the Marxist secessionists in Geneva -- The General Council had no funds -- The dissolution of the General Council. The anti-authoritarian International and attempted conciliation : The Seventh congress of the International, Brussels, September 1874 -- The Eighth Congress of the International, Bern, October 1876 -- Earlier attempts at reconciliation -- Labour candidates - a question of circumstance -- The Congress in Olten, June 1873 - dialogue with little rancour -- On Bakunin's tomb -- Initiatives for reconciliation appear to gain ground -- German Socialists oppose rapprochement -- Debates at the Bern Congress -- The report of the Belgian Federation -- Questions of representation -- The Balkans War -- Hopes for reconciliation -- Bakunin and parliamentary institutions -- Julius Vahlteich -- The Gotha Congress. Towards the end of the "anti-authoritarian" International : The Ninth Congress of the International, Verviers, September 1877 -- Paul Brousse and Andrea Costa -- The debate about the Ghent University Socialist Congress, September 1877 -- The Ghent Congress, 9 September 1877 -- The Congress of Fribourg, 1878. The end of the Jura Federation and the evaporation of the "anti-authoritarian" concept. Conclusion. Appendices : 1 Preamble to the statutes of the IWA, Geneva, First congress of the IWA, September 1866 -- 2 Extract from the minutes of the Brussels IWA Congress, September 1868 -- 3 Programme of the International Alliance for Socialist Democracy, October 1868 -- 4 Resolutions at a meeting at Crèt-du-Locle, May 1869 -- 5 Key demands of the Social Democratic Workers' Party, August 1869 -- 6 The Basel Congress of the International, September 1869 -- 7 L'Egalité criticises the General Council, 6 November 1869 -- 8 Minutes of Committee Meeting, Geneva Alliance for Socialist Democracy Section, 14 January 1870 -- 9 Minutes of a General Assembly Meeting, Geneva Alliance for Socialist Democracy Section, 2 April 1870 -- 10 Jura Federation: Polemic against the General Council, July 1872 -- 11 Resolutions of the Saint-Imier Congress of the IWA, 15-16 September 1872 -- 12 The Sixth Congress of the International, Geneva 1-6 September 1873 -- 13 Bakunin's last letter to Élisée Reclus, 15 February 1875 -- 14 Current demands, the Gotha Programme of the German Social-Democratic Party, may 1875 -- 15 Resolutions of the Congresses of Vervíers, 5-8 September 1877 and Ghent, 9-14 September 1877 -- 16 1877: The International falls apart. Chronology -- Sources -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
Explores the history of the International Workers' Association and sheds new light on the emerging Social-=Democratic and Anarchist traditions.
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