"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspective

Fabrice Bensimon specialises in British History at Sorbonne Université and is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research fellow at University College London.Quentin Deluermoz is Associate Professor in History at the University of Paris 13, Research Fellow at the Centre de recherches historiques (EHESS) and member of IUF.Jeanne Moisand is Associate Professor in History at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 and member of the Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1 – Paris 4).

"The essays are well written and well documented. Of particular interest, especially to students of the larger Left, is Jürgen Herres’s contribution, “Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited,” which provides a much-needed, post–Cold War perspective on the leading—but not authoritarian—figure of the First International during the first wave of globalization. Contributions on Latin American and US sections of the IWMA relieve the time-worn Eurocentrism of many past analyses, and one essay explores the roles and opportunities for women in the overwhelmingly male-dominated groups. In sum, the coverage is well rounded." - J. A. Young, in: CHOICE 56:2 (2018)"The contributions to the collection, both individually and collectively, greatly enrich and bring up-to-date our knowledge and understanding of the IWMA. They also flag important areas of future research, especially those around gender, race and transnationalism. In sum, this book provides a treasure-trove of information and insights for all those interested in labour internationalism, its mid-nineteenth century development, its many-sided character and its strengths and weaknesses." - Neville Kirk, in: Labour History, No. 115 (November 2018), pp. 179-181"...this book is quite a successful work, certainly as a history of the IWMA itself, but also as a broader contribution to a trans-national and even global view of the working-class organisation and political radicalism during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Indeed, it is as an analysis of the interaction between the national and the trans-national and global, in political radicalism and working-class organisation, and as an account of both the breaks and the continuities in these interactions that the book makes its greatest scholarly contribution." - Jonathan Sperber, in: Cultural and Social History (2019) [DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1572693] "Der gut lesbare und in jedem Fall nicht nur für das spezialisierte Fachpublikum instruktive Band versammelt (neben einer guten Einleitung der Herausgeber) 23 Beiträge aus der Feder zum großen Teil prominenter Kenner der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegungen beziehungsweise der Pariser Kommune [...] Jüngere Spezialisten und Spezialistinnen zeichnen sogar für die Mehrzahl der Beiträge verantwortlich, und so bewegt er sich durchaus am cutting edge der Forschung''. Thomas Welskopp, in Francia Recensio 4, (2019).

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionFabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz and Jeanne MoisandPart 1: Organisation and Debates2 The IWMA and Its Precursors in London, c. 1830–1860Fabrice Bensimon3 Little Local Difficulties?The General Council of the IWMA as an Arena for British Radical PoliticsDetlev Mares4 The IWMA and Industrial Conflict in England and FranceIorwerth Prothero5 Transnational Solidarity in the MakingLabour Strikes, Money Flows, and the First International, 1864–1872Nicolas Delalande6 The IWMA, Workers and the Machinery Question (1864–1874)François Jarrige7 The IWMA and the CommuneA ReassessmentQuentin DeluermozPart 2: Global Causes and Local Branches8 Global Values Locally TransformedThe IWMA in the German States 1864–1872/76Jürgen Schmidt9 The IWMA in Belgium (1865–1875)Jean Puissant10 The First International in SwitzerlandA Few ObservationsMarc Vuilleumier11 For Independent Poland and the Emancipation of the Working ClassThe Poles in the IWMA, 1864–1876Krzysztof Marchlewicz12 Russians in the IWMAThe BackgroundWoodford McClellan13 The Italians and the IWMACarl Levy14 1871 in SpainTransnational and Local History in the Formation of the FRE-IWMAAlbert Garcia-Balañà15 Revolutions, Republics and IWMA in the Spanish Empire (around 1873)Jeanne Moisand16 The First International in Latin AmericaHoracio Tarcus17 Socialism v. Democracy?The IWMA in the USA, 1869–1876Michel Cordillot18 “Sectarian Secret Wisdom” and Nineteenth-Century RadicalismThe IWMA in London and New YorkAntony TaylorPart 3: Actors and Ideologies19 Karl Marx and the IWMA RevisitedJürgen Herres20 The Construction of Proudhonism within the IWMASamuel Hayat21 Professor Beesly, Positivism and the InternationalThe Patriotism QuestionGregory Claeys22 Bringing Together Feminism and Socialism in the First InternationalFour Examples Antje Schrupp23 Bakunin and the Jura FederationMarianne Enckell24 Carlo Cafiero and the International in ItalyFrom Marx to BakuninMathieu LéonardAppendix 1: The IWMA – A Brief ChronologyAppendix 2: MembershipIndexes