The Internationale (magazine)

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The Internationale was an anarcho-syndicalist magazine with an anarchist tendency, which was published from 1924 to 1949 in four episodes with different editors and subtitles.

history

1st episode

The 1. Episode “of the International was the organ of the International Workers' Association (IAA) under the editorship of Augustin Souchy . The magazine was published from March 1924 to January 1926 in six issues with a print run of 2500 copies. This theoretically oriented publication published u. a. Articles by Pierre Ramus , Max Nettlau and Rudolf Rocker , for example on syndicalism or the IAA congress in Amsterdam. In addition, reports from the national organizations as well as book and magazine references were published. The International was addressed in particular to the functionaries of the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD). The successor was The International Second Episode.

2nd episode

The subtitle was Journal for the Revolutionary Labor Movement, Social Criticism and Socialist Reconstruction. The editorial office was in the hands of Helmut Rüdiger from 1932 to 1933 and was later taken over by Gerhard Wartenberg until the ban in 1933 . The publisher was FAUD, until 1931 it was affiliated with the IAA. The 2. Episode ”appeared monthly from 1927 to 1933 with the exception of numbers 11 and 12 (year 5), which were not published due to a police ban. In the first issue in November 1927 the main topics were set out: reports on international syndicalism and the international labor movement, criticism of the current political system. Also new socialist territory should be broken. Articles by Willi Jadau, Fritz Kader, Erich Mühsam , Fritz Linow, Arthur Lehning , Max Nettlau , Rudolf Rocker , Artur Streiter and others were published.

3rd episode

The 3rd episode of the Internationale was the successor to the 2nd episode and appeared from August 1, 1934 to April 5, 1935 in five issues under the cover title Deutschtum im Ausland, Blätter zur Pflege deutscher Kind and the cover editor "Association of German Schools Abroad ". Paris, Barcelona and Stockholm were given as places of publication, but the magazine was published by the group "German Anarcho-Syndicalists" (DAS) in Amsterdam .

4th episode

The publisher was the "Reichsinformationsstelle" (RIST) of the Federation of Liberal Socialists (FFS) in Darmstadt. The fourth episode appeared monthly in the post-war years 1947 to 1949 and was editorially supervised by Gretel and Alfred Leinau . According to Alfred Leinau, the name of the magazine “thought of bringing our old monthly magazine back to life, which has now been silent for 14 years”. The main topics were the unification of Europe, trade union issues, the libertarian labor movement from a syndicalist perspective, the division of Germany, dealing with National Socialism with contributions by Margarete Buber, George Hepp, Fritz Linow, Otto Reimers , Rudolf Rocker, Helmut Rüdiger, Augustin Souchy and others. The successor was the magazine The Free Society .

literature

  • Free Workers' Union of Germany (ed.): The International 1927–1933. Reprint, Topos Verlag, Vaduz / Liechtenstein 1979.
  • Helge Döhring: The press of the syndicalist labor movement in Germany 1918 to 1933. Edition Syfo 1, Moers 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810846-8-9 , pp. 20-23.
  • Hartmut Rübner : Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism. “Die Internationale”, (Amsterdam / Netherlands et al.): Pp. 266, 286, 287. “Die Internationale”, (Berlin): pp. 10, 56, 147, 150, 179–181, 212, 266, 286, 287 . Libertad Verlag , Potsdam, 1994, ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .
  • Ulrich Klan , Dieter Nelles: There is still a flame, Rhenish anarcho-syndicalists in the Weimar Republic and under fascism. Nevertheless publishing house , Grafenau – Döffingen 1990, ISBN 3-922209-72-6 , p. 174.
  • Günter Bartsch : Anarchism in Germany. 1945-1965. Volume 1, Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1972, ISBN 3-7716-1331-0 , pp. 163-169.

Web links

Brief information about The International Series 1 to 4 in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA):

In detail: Die Internationale , 2nd episode (1927–1932) in the Institute for Research on Syndicalism

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. on this: Hartmut Rübner: Freiheit und Brot. On "The Internationale, 1st episode", p. 56.
  2. ↑ See Hartmut Rübner: Freedom and bread. “About the Internationale. 2nd episode ". Pp. 56, 147, 150, 179–181 and 212. With annotations pp. 26, 29, 40 and 188.
  3. ↑ Cf. Günter Bartsch: Anarchism in Germany. Volume 1, on “The International Fourth Series”, pp. 163–169.
  4. ^ Alfred Leinau in: The International. [4. Episode] No. 1, December 1947.
  5. ↑ Die Internationale ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Available online. Retrieved January 11, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.a-bibliothek.org