In 1921 revolutionary trade-union leaders from across the world met to found the Red Trade Union International, representing millions of workers. The gathering brought together a wide variety of forces within the global labor movement, with proceedings that included acrimonious debates between syndicalists and other currents over the purpose and tasks of trade unions, the nature of class-struggle unionism, and union strategy and tactics. This launch event will discuss the contours of these debates and their relevance for revolutionaries today.

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Speakers:

Reiner Tosstorff teaches at the history department at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, and is author of The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920-1937. He has published monographs and articles on Spanish history as well as on the international workers’ movement in the twentieth century.

Daria Dyakonova is a history researcher who teaches at the International University in Geneva, Switzerland. She is co-editor of The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920-1922. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the Canadian Communist Youth and ties with the International Communist Movement during the interwar period.

Mike Taber is editor of The Founding of the Red Trade Union International and is the current director of the Comintern Publishing Project. He has edited a number of volumes on the history of the international socialist and communist movement.

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