The Provisional Agenda of the International Syndicalist Congress, London 1913
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9967601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wayne Westergard-Thorpe (Public Agenda, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 92-103 |
| Publication date | 1981-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859000007069 |
| OpenAlex | W2134320931 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Opposed to the reformist character, exclusivist structure and socialdemocratic orientation of the Berlin-based International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres, thirty-seven delegates of revolutionary, direct-actionist labour organizations and propaganda groups from nine European and three Latin American nations assembled at London in September 1913 for the first international syndicalist congress. 1 The largest pre-war revolutionary-syndicalist organization, the French Confederation Generate du Travail, not only refused to attend the London assembly but actively campaigned against it. The only professedly syndicalist member of the ISNTUC, which it sought to revolutionize from within, the CGT feared the congress might found a revolutionary International to rival the Berlin Secretariat, which would encourage schisms within the labour movement generally and, more directly, threaten the fragile unity of the French organization itself. Its opposition did not prevent French labour bodies, including affiliates of the CGT, from being represented at London, though French submissions are conspicuously absent from the congress agenda
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |