A brief history of international labor movement.

1. Presented By: Elsa Abro

2. The brutal injustice
of the emergent
society inspired
social reformers
over several
decades (18th -
19th) to propose a
more rational and
fairer social order.

3. The "Group
for
Communist
Education"
approached
Marx and
Engels for
help in
establishing
a Communist
The Manifesto proclaimed that the first objective of the revolution was to "win
the battle of democracy"
First published in February 1848, the Manifesto
eventually emerged as “the theoretical basis of the
international labor movement.”

4. ◊ The International Workingmen's Association (IWA, 1864–1876), often
called the First International.
◊ An international organization which aimed at uniting a variety of
different socialist, communistand anarchist political groups and trade
union organizations.
◊ “Inaugural Address" - and Rules prepared by Karl Marx
◊ The first congress of the International, the first international labor congress
ever held, met in Geneva in 1866.
◊ As from 1868, the International grew rapidly, as unions developed in many
countries.
◊ Marx became the political leader of the International, but was challenged
by the anarchists.
The first international labor congress - Geneva (1866)

5. Whereas Marxists held that the labor movement had to conquer the State through
political action, the anarchists believed that any State could only be authoritarian
by nature and therefore had to destroyed and replaced by federated system of
community-based bodies.
The conflict between Marxists and anarchists led to several splits and eventually contributed to the
demise of the International in 1876.

6. Achievements:
◊ Established the first regular contacts between labor
organizations of different countries.
◊ It was the first to formulate general demands (such
as the eight-hour day), which became common
demands of unions internationally.

8. Some of the unions attending the founding congress of the
2nd International decided to establish international
organizations of workers in the same trade or industry.
International Trade Secretariats (ITS) renamed Global
Union Federations, or GUFs, in 2002,
 By 1911, a total membership of about 6.3m.
The national trade unions in different countries which were
not involved in the Second International ( particularly unions
in France and the British trade unions), also felt the need for
an independent international organization.
International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) in
1913.
In that year, the IFTU had members in twenty countries with
a total membership of approximately 7.7m.

9. The Second International and IFTU collapsed with the
outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.

10. The labor movement was split three
ways
Britain,
France,
Belgium,
Russia
Germany,
Austria-
Hungary,
Bulgaria
Netherlands,
Switzerland,
Denmark, Norway,
Sweden, Italy

11. Bolshevik, ( Russian: “One of the Majority”)
member of a wing of the Russian Social-
Democratic Workers' Party, which, led by Lenin,
seized control of the government in Russia
(October 1917) and became the dominant political
power.

12. FALL OF RILU – THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL

13. At the end of the war, widespread assumption that the war-time alliance
could be reflected in trade union terms
That a united international trade union organization, including the Soviet trade
unions and the Western social-democratic unions, was possible.
After several exploratory international meetings, such an organization, the
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), was established at a conference
in Paris in October 1945.
Soon, however, differences developed between the social-democratic and
Communist unions.
 By 1949, these accumulated conflicts became unbridgeable and the non-
Communist unions left the WFTU.
At the end of that year, they had established a new organization, the International
Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU).

15. The ITUC traces its origins back to the First International (also known
as the International Workingmen's Association)
It was formed on 1 November 2006, out of the merger of
the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and
the World Confederation of Labour (WCL).
The ITUC represents 176 million workers through its 328 affiliated
organisations within 162 countries and territories.
In 2014 commemorated the 150th anniversary of the founding of the
International Working Men's Association at its own world congress
held in Berlin.
IRlist_of_affiliates_16th_gc_2_.pdf
Sharan Burrow (General Secretary, ITUC)