International Workers Association

The International Workers' Association (IWA) (Spanish: AIT - Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores) is an international anarchosyndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries. It was founded in 1922 at a Berlin congress of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions.

Related Topics:
Spanish - Anarchosyndicalist - 1922 - Berlin

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Previously, the same name was used to refer to the unitarian socialist international organisation founded in 1864. But this first International wasn't able to withstand the differences between anarchist and marxist currents, being dissolved some time later. Not only modern IWA-AIT but also the Socialist International and the Communist International find in this first experiment of worldwide working class movement their own origins. See International Workingmen's Association.

Related Topics:
Socialist - Socialist International - Communist International - International Workingmen's Association

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Groups in the IWA include:

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• Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT, Spain)
• Confédération nationale du travail (CNT-F, France)
• Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union (FAU, Germany)
 
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