The Founding of the Red Trade Union International

Mike Taber is editor of The Communist Movement at a Crossroads (Brill, 2018), Fighting Fascism (Haymarket Books, 2017), and Under the Socialist Banner (Haymarket Books, 2021). He has also edited and prepared collections by Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, James P. Cannon, and Maurice Bishop.

Introduction



About This Edition



List of Abbreviations



Proceedings of the RILU First Congress



Session 1. 3July 1921, Evening

Opening Session; Greetings


Session 2. 4July 1921, Evening

Congress Organisation; Work of International Council


Session 3. 6July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Manifesto; Debate on International Council Report


Session 4. 8July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

World Economic Crisis; Trade Union Tasks and Tactics


Session 5. 9July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Credentials; RILU-Comintern Relations


Session 6. 9July 1921, Evening

RILU-Comintern Relations (continued)


Session 7. 10July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

RILU-Comintern Relations (continued)


Session 8. 11July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

RILU-Comintern Relations (continued)


Session 9. 11July 1921, Evening

RILU-Comintern Relations; Workers’ Control


Session 10. 13July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Factory Committees; Italian Question


Session 11. 13July 1921, Evening

Italian Question (continued)


Session 12. 14July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Debate on Tactics


Session 13. 14July 1921, Evening

Debate on Tactics (continued)


Session 14. 15July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Debate on Tactics (continued)


Session 15. 15July 1921, Evening

Organisation Report; Women in Unions


Session 16. 18July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Commission Reports; War Victims


Session 17. 19July 1921, Morning–Afternoon

Trade Unions in East; Commission Reports; Russian Anarchists; Congress Closing


Statements Handed in to Presidium and Attached to Minutes



Congress Commissions and Central Council Session



Organisation Commission



Commission on Tactics



Commission on Workers’ Control



Central Council Session



Resolutions



Manifesto to the Workers of the World



Resolution on the Activity of the Provisional Council of Red Trade and Industrial Unions over the Past Year



Resolution on Relations between the Red Labour Union International and the Communist International



Resolution on the Italian Question



Resolution on the Tasks and Tactics of Trade Unions



Resolution on Workers’ Control



Resolution on Factory Committees



Resolution on the Organisation Question



Statutes of the Red International of Labour Unions



Resolution on the Women’s Question



Resolution on the Unemployment Question



Resolution on the Question of War Victims



Resolution on the Labour Movement in the Near and Far Eastern Countries and the Colonies



Appeal against the White Terror



To the Workers of the United Kingdom



To the Spanish Proletariat



Greetings to the Russian People



Appendix1: Amiens Charter

Appendix2: June 1920 Conference of Unionists from Britain, Italy, and Russia

Appendix3: KAPD Resolution on the Trade-Union Question

Appendix4: Women in the French Metallurgy Industry

 Louise Heuchel

Chronology

Glossary

Bibliography

Index