Confédération Sportive Internationale Travailliste et Amateur

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The Confédération Sportive Internationale Travailliste et Amateur ( CSIT ; German International Workers ' Sports Association ; English International Workers and Amateurs in Sports Confederation ) is an international association of workers' sports based in Vienna .

history

The first international organization of the workers' sport movement came into being in 1913 with the establishment of the “Association Socialiste Internationale d'Education physique” (ASIEP), which initially included France, Belgium, Great Britain and Austria. The German Workers' Gymnastics Federation was reserved about this establishment, but ultimately joined the ASIEP in March 1914. Like the political and trade union organizations of the international labor movement, the ASIEP collapsed with the outbreak of the First World War.

The revival took place in 1920 with the establishment of the "International Workers' Association for Sport and Physical Culture", which was also called "Lucerne Sports International" (LSI) because of its founding place. Founding members were Germany , Great Britain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Czechoslovakia and Italy. Austria was only accepted into the LSI in 1924 after the Workers 'Association for Sport and Physical Culture Austria (ASKÖ) had been founded to the exclusion of workers' footballers who maintained relationships with the civil football association. In January 1928, the organization was officially renamed Socialist Workers' Sports International (SASI). The goals were to improve the physical health of workers, their international fraternization and the fight against the abuse of sport for nationalistic and militaristic purposes as well as against record addiction and commercialization. Initially, the umbrella organization endeavored to maintain strict neutrality in the disputes between social democrats and communists that broke out after the Russian revolution and the split in the international workers' movement. In 1927 he officially gave up his political neutrality and committed himself to social democracy.

The association organized international workers' olympiads in the interwar period . They took place in 1925 in Frankfurt am Main (summer) and Schreiberhau (winter), in 1931 in Vienna (summer) and Mürzzuschlag (winter) and in 1937 in Antwerp (summer) and Janské Lázně (winter). The association also organized the European Workers' Football Championship in 1932/34 (which was canceled due to the breakup of the workers' sports associations in Germany and Austria) and took part in the anti-fascist workers' athletes march in Paris in 1934 and the 1936 People's Olympiad in Barcelona.

The SASI was in competition with the "Red Sports International" (RSI), founded in Moscow in 1921 and existing until 1937, which sought to bring workers' sport to communism and to make it useful for the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. The Socialist Workers 'Sport International excluded RSI athletes from participating in the Workers' Olympiads in 1925 and 1931 and forbade its own members to participate in the International Spartakiad in Moscow in 1928, organized by the RSI . With the beginning of the Second World War, the SASI collapsed. After the Second World War , the association was re-established in Brussels on May 30, 1946 under the name Comité Sportif International du Travail . In the period of the Cold War, however, it was no longer able to build on its importance from the interwar period.

The CSIT today

Today the association comprises 43 organizations from 36 countries and 4 continents with 230 million members. On October 31, 1986, he was recognized by the International Olympic Committee . The headquarters were relocated to Eilat in 1993 and the name was changed: Confédération Sportive Internationale du Travail . The move to Vienna followed in 2009. In 2011 the CSIT general assembly in Rio de Janeiro decided to open itself to all amateurs and then changed the name to Confédération Sportive Internationale Travailliste et Amateur .

Member in Germany is the Rad- und Kraftfahrerbund Solidarität (RKB), in Austria the ASKÖ and in Switzerland the SATUS .

CSIT has been organizing the World Sports Games as an international mass sports event since 2008 . Previous events have taken place in Rimini (2008), Tallinn (2010), Varna (2013), Lignano (2015), Riga (2017) and Tortosa (2019).

Archives

Archives on the history of the CSIT are located in the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and in the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich.

literature

  • Herbert Dierker: Workers' sport in the area of ​​tension in the twenties: sport policy and everyday experiences on an international, German and Berlin level. Klartext, Essen 1990.
  • André Gounot: Les mouvements sportifs ouvriers en Europe (1893-1939). Dimensions transnationales et déclinaisons locales. Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2016, ISBN 978-2-86820-935-1 .
  • Arnd Krüger , James Riordan (Ed.): The Story of Worker Sport. Human Kinetics, Champaign IL et al. 1996, ISBN 0-87322-874-X .
  • Kalevi Olin (Ed.): Sport, Peace and Development. International Worker Sport 1913–2013. A Festschrift Book in Honor of International Workers and Amateurs in Sports Confederation (CSIT). Sportverlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503593-1-2 .
  • David Steinberg: Sport under Red Flags! The relations between the Red Sport International and the Socialist Workers' Sport International 1920-1939. Dissertation. Madison 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statute (French statute ). CSIT, 2018, accessed August 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Arbeiter-Turn-Zeitung (ATZ), March 15 and 29, 1914.
  3. ^ ATZ, September 22, 1920.
  4. ↑ Matthias Marschik: 'We don't play for fun'. Workers' football in the First Republic. Verlag zur Gesellschaftgeschichte, Vienna 1994, pp. 69–90.
  5. ↑ André Gounot: The Red Sports International, 1921-1937. Communist mass politics in European workers' sport. LIT, Münster 2002.
  6. ↑ Raymond Gafner: reconnaisance par le CIO (PDF) IOC , October 31, 1986, accessed on August 26, 2019 .
  7. ^ NN: International Workers and Amateurs in Sports Confederation. Union of International Associations, November 17, 2017, accessed August 26, 2019 .
  8. ^ Labor and Socialist International Archives
  9. ↑ Swiss Social Archives: Archive Finding Aids, Swiss Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Association SATUS, Fédération ouvrière suisse de sport et de gymnastique FSSS As of: July 17, 2012.