(63) THE UNITED FRONT - YouTube A WIN Discussion, March 2023. Throughout the world, workers are facing multiple threats: economic crisis, racism, fascism, climate catastrophe and war. There has never been a more urgent need to build in action a mass united front of the working class in defence of its interests. Our meeting this week will focus on some key lessons from the history … [Read more...]
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL – Part 3
The founding of the Communist International (4) BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL Part 3: the founding of the Communist International - YouTube WIN Youtube Discussion December 2022 Over the last few months WIN has been running an occasional series on the history of the workers’ internationals. These meetings are not intended to be dry academic seminars but dynamic collective inquiries into … [Read more...]
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL – Part 2: The Socialist International – September 2022
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL - Part 2: The Socialist International - September 2022 - YouTube This week's meeting was introduced by Ed Bober. As part of our occasional series on the history of the workers’ internationals, this week we focused on the Socialist International (also known as the Second International). On the day of the first worldwide general strike on May Day 1890, Engels … [Read more...]
LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926
LESSONS OF THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE 1926 - A Workers’ International Network meeting - JULY 2022 - YouTube Hear from John Byrne, Former GEC Manchester Openshaw shop steward and member of AUEW District Committee, and former Manchester city councillor. After more than a decade of harsh cuts, facing a soaring inflation rate of 11% and an immediate threat to the food and fuel needs … [Read more...]
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL – Part 1: Marx and the First International – with Ed Bober
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL - YouTube A Workers’ International Network meeting Sunday 19th June As part of our weekly programme of discussion meetings, over the next few months WIN will be running an occasional series on the history of the workers’ internationals. These meetings are not intended to be dry academic seminars but dynamic collective inquiries into the lessons of our common … [Read more...]
Lessons of the Paris Commune
WIN marked the 150th anniversary of the world’s first workers’ uprising with a review of its lessons for today. The discussion was introduced by OLIVIER DELBEKE, speaking from Paris. The meeting was bilingual (in French and English). Eleanor Marx: "It is time people understood the true meaning of this revolution… It meant the government of the people by the people. It was the first … [Read more...]
The Franco-German war, the Commune and the end of the International Workingmen Association.
By Vincent Presumey. First phase of the war: Bonapartist France against German unity. A telescoped retrospective view gives us the impression that the Paris Commune was born directly from the Franco-German war of 1870-1871(eighteen-seventy/eighteen-seventy-one). But the deep working-class and democratic forces which led to the Commune, "the antithesis of the empire", were at work long … [Read more...]