Anarchist St. Imier International
As anti-authoritarian International (also Saint- Imier International ) is unofficially the association of anti-authoritarian and collectivist sections and federations of the International Workers Association (IWA ) refers. It was formed after the end of the controversial Congress of the International in The Hague, on an international counter Congress in the Swiss Jura 15-16. September 1872.
The Anti-authoritarian International initially comprised all active national federations of the International and thus regarded as legitimate IAA, in contrast to the General Council and individual local sections of the IAA, which also claimed the right to be the IAA. She heard in 1878 actually to exist after shouts grew louder after a total Socialist International and its most active federation was conceived in the Swiss Jura in decline.
History
Cleavage of the International
Following the adoption of IX. Resolution on the secret London Conference of the International of 1871, which called for the formation of national labor parties, when resistance to the General Council by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was accused encouraged to put up with this decision to the flow pluralism within the International arbitrarily to an end. At the Annual Congress of the International in The Hague in 1872, a majority of delegates decided composed of many members of the general council, general council loyal delegates with German mandates and Blanquistes more controversial resolutions. The General Council was given more power by this whole federations could exclude from the International, and the members of Mikhail Bakunin and James Guillaume were expelled from the International.
These decisions were declared in the wake of all regional federations, the International on their respective congresses void. The reason for this was that the majority of the conference participants not represented sections of the International, and that therefore the decisions did not conform to the will of the members of the International. The conflict split the International into a part with the General Council of the International at the top, which supported the decisions of London and The Hague, and another part of the country Federations of Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, England, the USA and the Swiss Jura, who rejected these decisions. Both parts looked at as the legitimate International Working Men's Association, and took them separately on their way further.
The Anti-authoritarian International
The Anti- Authoritarian International was formed two weeks after the Hague Congress ( Fifth Congress ), the International than 15 delegates from Spain, Italy, France, the USA and Switzerland were present in Saint- Imier. The anti-authoritarian part of the International should include all sections and members who advocated for increased federal organization of the International. Delegates agreed on the counter Congress unanimously approved the destruction of all structures of domination and anarchy as a target and as a means of the revolutionary strike. There were, however, not all country federations in the founding congress present, this point was later rejected by the English and American Federation, which considered the influence of the workers on the policy as necessary. It was agreed that the International - as before - the country sections can not dictate what strategy they need to adopt in the fight for the emancipation of the workers and they spoke out for the flow pluralism within the International. After the congress, the federations of Belgium, England, Spain and the Jura Federation of the new General Council in New York were excluded from the International; the Italian Federation was not recognized. This step was not taken seriously by the concerned federations and led to the further isolation of the General Council.
At the first congress in Saint Imier, as the VI. Congress renamed the ILO, held in 1873 in Geneva, attended by delegates of the Federations of England, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Italy, Switzerland and France. In a first resolution, the delegates decided to abolish the General Council and presented partly the Statutes of 1866 restores. In general, the statutes revision was the largest and most important part of the Congress. The autonomy of federations and sections has been strengthened by all the resolutions only obliged the affirmative federations or sections. Every year should be another regional federation to take over the federal Office of International and are entrusted with correspondence, statistics and the organization of the next Congress. Thus, similar events such as the Hague Convention could not repeat, it was decided that can be tuned only on administrative matters and not on matters of principle. Finally, the Congress delegates sent on the last day of the congress still a conciliatory address to the Congress of the General Council, which was two days later also hold its congress in Geneva.
In fact, were in the following years due to the political situation, but only conferences in Switzerland and Belgium possible and a planned congress in Barcelona in 1875 had to be canceled. The year before, took August Reinsdorf, the first German delegates at a congress of the anti-authoritarian International part.
At the last congress of 1877 in Verviers was attended by delegates of the Federations of Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Egypt, the Swiss Jura and the Walloon part of Belgium. The Belgian Federation sought a cooperation with other socialist forces and sought to build a pan- socialist organization. After the Congress of Verviers anti-authoritarian International ceased to exist de facto, because the next scheduled congress of 1878 in Belgium was no longer performed. The end was hastened by the decline of the most active in the Jura Federation.