Second International
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The Socialist International, commonly known as the Second International, was a political international of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris in 1889. At a time of growing industrial working-
Delegates at the 1910 Copenhagen Congress
Wilhelm Liebknecht
August Bebel
Édouard Vaillant
First International
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The International Workingmen's Association, commonly known as the First International, was a political international which aimed to unite a variety of left-wing political groups and trade union organi
Second International
…and the expansion of suffrage, it brought together autonomous national parties into a loose international federation. It continued the work of the First International (1864–1876), from which it inherited both the legacy of Karl Marx and the conflict with anarchists. The organization was dominated by the powerful…
Delegates at the 1866 Geneva Congress
George Odger
Henri Tolain
Depiction of the IWA's founding meeting at St Martin's Hall in London, 1864