The First International Syndicalist Congress was a meeting of European and Latin American syndicalist organizations at Holborn Town Hall in London that began on this day in 1913. The congress was attended by 38 delegates representing 65 organizations from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, with a total membership between 220,000 and 250,000.
Despite being marked by heated disagreements over both tactics and principles, the Congress succeeded in creating the International Syndicalist Information Bureau as a vehicle of exchange and solidarity between the various organizations, and the “Bulletin international du mouvement syndicaliste” as a means of communication. It would be viewed as a success by almost all who participated.
The First International Congress of Revolutionary Trade Unions (July 3rd to 19th 1921)
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i can’t imagine being so out of touch with my basic humanity to do something so pointlessly cruel to a child
One of my proudest moments was when I went out for icecream with a cousin and his young daughters. The 10-year-old and I were in line, I had offered to pay. Clerk took her order and asked her “One scoop or two?” She looked up at me, I whispered to her “Two”, and she got the biggest happiest grin on her face. No child goes without excessive amounts of icecream when I’m around.