IWMA
Articles by and about the International Working Men's Association (IWMA) or First International and its members.
Bakunin, Mikhail, 1814-1876
The anarchist movement throws up many men and women, who become famous because of their actions, ideas and writings. Perhaps the best known of them all was the Russian anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
Born May 30, 1814 Pryamukhino, Russia – died June 13, 1876 Bern, Switzerland.
1868-1936: Anarchism in Spain
A history of the anarchist and workers movements in Spain from its origins in the late 19th century up to the start of the Civil War.
The Spanish branch of the International Workingmen's Association (with Marx, Engels and the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin amongst the founders) was numerically the most substantial section of the International, with 50,000 members. It trod the paths of Bakuninism laid down by the Italian delegate Fanelli.
1860-today: The International Workers Association
The history of the anarchist international from its origins in the 1860s through its height of several million members, to its later decline and current resurgence.
The International Workers Association was founded in Berlin in 1922, but its origins trace back to the 1860s and the International Working Men's Association, better known as the First International.
Notes on the "American Split"
The First International Working Men's Association
NOTES ON THE "AMERICAN SPLIT"
May 1872
October 15, 1871, was published in the journal of Woodhull (a banker's woman, free-lover, and general humbug) and Claflin (her sister in the same line) an "Appeal of Section No. 12" (founded by Woodhull, and almost exclusively consisting of middle-class humbugs and worn-out Yankee swindlers in the reform business; Section 9 is founded by Miss Claflin).
Resolutions on the split in the US Federation
The First International Working Men's Association
RESOLUTIONS ON THE SPLIT IN THE U.S. FEDERATION
written (in English) before March 5, 1872 published in La Emancipacion, April 6 Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, May 4 Der Volksstaat, May 8
Ficticious Splits within the International
The First International Working Men's Association
FICTITIOUS SPLITS IN THE INTERNATIONAL
by KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS
written by Marx and Engels between January and March 5, 1872
Adopted by the General Council as a private circular. Published in Geneva 1872 as a French pamphlet called Les Pretendues Scissions dans l'Internationale. It marks the opening of Marx and Engels' preparations for confrontation with Bakuninist forces at upcoming IWMA congress at the Hague (September 1872).
The President of Mankind
The First International Working Men's Association
THE "PRESIDENT OF MANKIND"
Rheinische Zeitung, No. 102, second supplement, April 12, 1865 and the Berliner Reform, No. 88, supplement, April 13, 1865
Translated by Barrie Selman
Statement regarding the causes of the breach with Social Demokrat
The First International Working Men's Association
STATEMENT REGARDING THE CAUSES OF THE BREACH WITH THE SOCIAL-DEMOKRAT
Published in the Berliner Reform, No. 67, March 19, 1865 Translated by Barrie Selman Transcribed for the Internet by director@marx.org, April 1996
Into his postscript to the statement of resignation of Herren Rüstow and Herwegh (No. 31 of the Social-Demokrat) Herr von Schweitzer incorporates an article dispatched from London to the Neue Frankfurter Zeitung as proof of "how inconsistent and utterly unprincipled the conduct of Herren Marx and Engels is". He attempts to falsify the facts. Hence the following factual information.
Resolutions of the Central Council on the Conflict in the Paris Section
The First International Working Men's Association
RESOLUTIONS OF THE CENTRAL COUNCIL ON THE CONFLICT IN THE PARIS SECTION
First published in: Marx/Engels Gesamlausgabe, Abt. 3, Bd, 3, Berlin, 1930
Resolution of the London Conference on Working Class Political Action
RESOLUTION OF THE LONDON CONFERENCE ON WORKING-CLASS POLITICAL ACTION
as adopted by the London Conference of the International, September, 1871
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
