![]() Of particular interest, especially to students of the larger Left, is Jürgen Herres’s contribution, “Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited,” which provides a much-needed, post–Cold War perspective on the leading-but not authoritarian-figure of the First International during the first wave of globalization. "The essays are well written and well documented. In our age of globalised capitalism, large labour migration, and rising nationalisms, much can be learnt from the history of the first international labour organisation.Ĭontributors are: Fabrice Bensimon, Gregory Claeys, Michel Cordillot, Nicolas Delalande, Quentin Deluermoz, Marianne Enckell, Albert Garcia Balaña, Samuel Hayat, Jürgen Herres, François Jarrige, Mathieu Léonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jürgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier. Although it split up in 1872, the IWMA played a ground-breaking part in the history of working-class internationalism. ![]() ![]() ![]() It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. “Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. ![]()
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