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The New International, Spring–Summer 1958

A.L.

Books in Review

The Hague Congress of 1872

 

From The New International, Vol. XXIV No. 2–3, Spring–Summer 1958, p. 144.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

The First International: Minutes of the Hague Congress of 1872 with Related Documents
Edited and translated by Hans Gerth
University of Wisconsin Press. 315 pp. $6.00

It was at the Hague Congress, its Fifth, that the Bakuninists were expelled from the First International and it was here that the decision was taken to transfer headquarters to the United States where the International languished and finally dissolved. These minutes are printed now for first time. The German manuscript of the minutes and of a lengthy report by F.A. Sorge to the North American Federation of the International are reproduced photostatically and translated into English. Appended is a detailed series of articles written for the public press by a delegate, Maltman Barry. Students and specialists now have access to invaluable source material; but the general reader, will find reports on the debates too fragmentary and skimpy to get a feeling for the issues in dispute and the arguments advanced on each side. In some detail, although by partisans of only one side, is the description of a faction fight within the American section of the International.

 
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