{"title":"Introduction to Part 1","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004463288_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004463288_003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142090,"journal":{"name":"A Global Radical Waterfront","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129589209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Class-Against-Class and the Red Trade Union Opposition","authors":"H. Weiss","doi":"10.1163/9789004463288_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004463288_009","url":null,"abstract":"One of the topics raised at the Fifth Conference of the ipctw in 1928 was the need to organise a World Congress of Transport Workers. The delegates supported the plan but its implementation had to wait for the realisation of another idea, namely the establishment of a new special designed radical umbrella organisation, namely an International for (revolutionary) Transport Workers. Delegates representing English, French, Irish, and Soviet transport workers’ unions had raised the idea at a meeting held in Moscow in September 1927.1 The proposal was discussed at the Fifth Conference but was not publicised through an official declaration, most probably because the Moscow headquarters had not made any preparations or had not managed to draft a resolution on the topic. In addition, the transition to and implementation of the ‘United front from below’tactic, not least the directive to consolidate the revolutionary trade union opposition groups, dominated the agenda for the next years to come. Two positions of how to organise work crystalised, one putting the revolutionary nuclei in the forefront while the other one focussed on either organising the opposition within the existing unions or establishing new red unions.","PeriodicalId":142090,"journal":{"name":"A Global Radical Waterfront","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123005149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}