The Workers Unite!: The International 150 Years Later

337 Pages·1.166 MB·English

by  Marcello Musto

Workers Unite!
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Workers Unite!
The International 150 Years Later
Edited by
Marcello Musto
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Workers Unite!: The International 150 Years Later/edited by Marcello Musto.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-62892-244-8 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-62892-243-1 (paperback)
1. International Workingmen’s Association (1864-1877)
2. Labor movement–History–19th century. 3. Labor unions–History–19th century.
4. Communism–History–19th century. I. Musto, Marcello.
HX11.I5W67 2014
331.88’6–dc23
2014018650
ISBN: HB: 978-1-6289-2244-8
PB: 978-1-6289-2243-1
ePDF: 978-1-6289-2245-5
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To my mother Lucia, who one May Day, when I was just a child,
first showed me the workers and their red flags.
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Contents
Preface Marcello Musto xiii
Introduction Marcello Musto 1
The International Working Men’s Association: Addresses,
Resolutions, Interventions, Documents 69
Part 1 The Inaugural Address
1 Karl Marx, Inaugural Address of the International
Working Men’s Association 7 3
Part 2 The Political Program
2 Karl Marx, [Resolutions of the Geneva Congress (1866)] 83
3 Various Authors, [Resolutions of the Brussels Congress (1868)] 89
Part 3 Labour
4 Karl Marx, [Inquiry on the Situation of the Working Classes] 97
5 François Dupleix – Ferdinand Quinet – Jean Marly –
Adrien Schettel – Jean Henri de Beaumont, [On Machinery
and its Effects] 99
6 P. Eslens – Eugène Hins – Paul Robin, [On Woman’s
Emancipation and Independence] 101
7 Karl Marx, [The Influence of Machinery in the Hands
of Capitalists] 103
8 Eugène Steens, [The Effect of Machinery on the Situation
of Workers] 105
9 Pierre Fluse, [The Effect of Machinery on the Wages
and Situation of Workers] 110
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10 Eugène Tartaret, [For the Reduction of Working Hours] 113
11 V. Tinayre, [On Working Women’s Equality and the Inclusion
of Different Political Opinions] 116
Part 4 Trade Union and Strike
12 Karl Marx, [The Necessity and Limits of Trade Union Struggle] 119
13 Karl Marx, [Against Strike Breaking] 122
14 Various Authors, [Interference in Trades’ Disputes] 124
15 César De Paepe, [Strikes, Unions, and the Affiliation
of Unions with the International] 126
16 Karl Marx, The Belgian Massacre 130
17 Jean Louis Pindy, [Resolution on Resistance Funds] 132
18 Eugène Hins, [Resistance Societies as the Organization
of the Future] 135
19 Robert Applegarth, [On the Resistance Societies] 136
20 Adhémar Schwitzguébel, [On Resistance Funds] 138
21 Alfred Herman, [Promoting Solidarity for Strikers] 141
22 Johann Philipp Becker, [International Trade
Union Organization] 143
Part 5 Cooperative Movement and Credit
23 César De Paepe, [Credit and the Emancipation of
the Working Class] 147
24 Ludwig Buechner – César De Paepe – André Murat –
Louis Müller – R. L. Garbe, [On the Cooperative Movement] 148
25 Johann Georg Eccarius – Henri Louis Tolain, [Fourth Estate
and Modern Production] 152
26 Various Authors, [The Question of Mutual Credit
Among Workers] 153
27 Aimé Grinand, [Cooperative and Workers’ Emancipation] 154
28 Eugène Hins, [Cooperative Associations as a Model of
the Future Society] 156
Contents ix
Part 6 On Inheritance
29 Karl Marx, [On Inheritance] 159
30 Mikhail Bakunin, [On Abolition of Inheritance] 161
31 Karl Marx, [On the Right of Inheritance] 163
Part 7 Collective Ownership and the State
32 Jean Vasseur, [Definition and Role of the State] 169
33 César De Paepe, [On the Collectivization of the Land] 170
34 Karl Marx, [On Landed Property] 175
35 Mikhail Bakunin, [On the Question of Landed Property] 176
36 César De Paepe, [On the Reorganization of Landed Property] 178
37 Emile Aubry, [On Workers Capacity to Administer Society] 180
38 Karl Marx – Friedrich Engels – Paul Lafargue, [Critique
of Bakunin’s Politics] 182
39 César de Paepe, [On the Organization of Public Services
in the Society of Future] 187
40 James Guillaume, [On the Abolition of the State] 192
41 César de Paepe, [On the People’s State (Volksstaat)] 194
42 Various Authors, [On Collective Ownership] 199
Part 8 Education
43 The Bookbinders of Paris, [On Free Education] 203
44 Karl Marx, [On Education in Modern Society] 206
45 César De Paepe, [On State Education] 208
Part 9 The Commune of Paris
46 Karl Marx, [On the Paris Commune] 211
Part 10 Internationalism and Opposition to War
47 Various Authors, [International Solidarity] 227