International Working Union of Socialist Parties
International Working Union of Socialist Parties Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialistischer Parteien | |
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Founded | 1921 |
Dissolved | 1923 |
Succeeded by | Labour and Socialist International |
Ideology | Centrist Marxism Socialism |
Political position | Left-wing |
Colors | Red |
The International Working Union of Socialist Parties (IWUSP; also known as the 2½ International or the Vienna International; German: Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialistischer Parteien, IASP) was a political international for the co-operation of socialist parties.
History
The IWUSP was founded on February 27, 1921, at a conference in
Members
The secretary of the IWUSP was the Austrian
Ideology
The founders of the IWUSP were parties that saw neither the
Dissolution
In Germany on September 24, 1922, the USPD, one of the main components of the IWUSP, merged with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), a member of the Berne International. Discouraged by the intransigent position of the Third International, the Berne International and the IWUSP merged to form the Labour and Socialist International (LSI) at a joint congress in Hamburg in May 1923. Some, such as the FPSR, refused to join the new body.
In the 1930s, a similar effort was made to create an international between the reformism of the Second and the
See also
References
Further reading
- André Donneur: Histoire de l’Union des partis socialistes pour l’action internationale (1920-1923). Sudbury Ontario: Libr. de l’Université Laurentienne, 1967.
- Lenin "The restoration of the International"
- Trotskyism versus Centrism in Britain