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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  • M68040 [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    How does the whole “critical support” thing work with places where the whole social climate would interfere with my desire to push for LGBT rights (and fundamental self preservation as a consequence), anyhow? Genuflection is not an option I am willing to even consider, so getting along with some of these people seems borderline impossible.

    My older - also gay - sibling may have sucked it up and learned to hide like a coward for the sake of getting by back in the early '00s, but I swore long ago I wouldn't do that. Not for anyone. Not for anything.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Nation-states aren't unitary indivduals whose actions can be judged as though they were all the work of a sinfle actor. China's shitty lgbt+ rights and oppression are bad. China's poverty reduction is good. The two policies aren't dependent on each other. You can support china because it's doing some things, while still being critical of bad things it does.

      A lot of it is just admitting that states are big, complicated entities and not shallow propaganda caricatures that try to treat states as individuals so that they can be easily reduced to good or bad.