Socialist Internationals - A Bibliography Publications of the Social-Democratic and Socialist Internationals 1914-2000 A project by the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) Compiled by Gerd Callesen Bonn, Gent 2001 The publication of this bibliography is sponsored by the foundation Erich-Brost-Stiftung ISBN 3-86077-990-7 Published by the Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung for the International Association of Labour History Institutions Godesberger Allee 149 D – 53175 Bonn Printed in Germany 2001 New locations and additions to the bibliography will be available at http://library.fes.de/library/english/si.html 5 Contents Introduction 7 International Socialist Bureau 19 Organisation Committee for the International Socialist Conference Stockholm 20 International Labour and Socialist Conference Bern 20 Second International 21 International Working Union of Socialist Parties 22 Comité des Neuf 24 Labour and Socialist International 24 Young Workers' International 39 International Union of Socialist Youth Organizations 39 Socialist Youth International 40 Socialist Labour Sports International; International Labour Sports Committee; International Labour Sports Confederation 44 Socialist Educational International 53 International Federation of Socialist Students 55 Labour Wireless International 56 International Socialist Abstainers’ Union 57 Internacio de Socialistaj Esperantistoj 58 Internationale der Arbeitersänger 59 International Federation of Socialist Doctors 60 International Socialist Committee for the Organized Jewish Workers in Palestine 60 Comité d'Action Socialiste pour l'Espagne 60 International Socialist Conference; Socialist Information and Liaison Office 61 Committee of the International Socialist Conferences 62 Socialist International 62 International Council of Social Democratic Women; Socialist International Women 73 International Union of Socialist Youth 76 International Literary Agency 88 International Friends of Nature 88 International Young Nature Friends 99 International Falcon Movement-Socialist Educational International 101 International Federation of Workers' Educational Associations 109 International Union of Socialist Educators 114 International Federation of the Socialist and Democratic Press 116 International Labour Assistance/International Workers Aid/Solidar 118 Asian Socialist Conference 123 Asia-Pacific Socialist Organization 125 Socialist Interafrican 125 Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe 126 The political organizations of the European Socialists 129 6 Liaison Bureau of the Socialist Parties of the European Community 130 Confederation of the Socialist Parties of the European Community 130 Party of European Socialists 136 Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists 139 Committee of the Regions – Group of the Party of the European Socialists 151 European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth, ECOSY 151 Appendix 154 Libraries and Organizations 164 Abbreviations 167 7 Introduction Several monographs – analytical or descriptive – of the Labour and Socialist International (1923-1940) and the Socialist International (1951-) in different languages exist. Also interna- tional co-operation between two or more parties has been analysed, and in this way central aspects of social-democratic/socialist internationalism have been highlighted. However, the smaller Internationals have only, at best, been treated in organizational histories published by and for the organizations themselves. All in all, neither the large nor the small Internationals have been analysed as they saw themselves through their publications or from the point of view of their efforts as seen from the outside. Some of these Internationals have been almost forgotten or are only known by a few, highly specialized, scholars. E.g. the Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe (SUCEE) has been forgotten since 1990, the International Federa- tion of the Socialist and Democratic Press (IFSDP) probably does not exist any more, the Asian Socialist Conference played a role in the 1950ies, but who has ever heard of the Interafrican Socialist or can place it in time? But all these organizations have or had quite a role to play. If their efforts were to be analysed and understood, the most important material – the publications of these organizations – had to be located. The material probably existed, but where, in which archives and libraries? This bibliography aims to register all publications of the various Social-Democratic and Socialist Internationals in the period from 1914 to 2000, whether they are printed or, as in some cases, mimeographed. The criterion for inclusion is wether the publications were intended to be used also outside the organization, that is all material intended for use only internally in the different Internationals has been excluded. For the same reason publications published by the secretaries or presidents of the Internationals, e.g. Camille Huysmans, Friedrich Adler, Albert Carthy and others, more or less on behalf of the Internationals have been included. The reason for setting the starting point in 1914 is that in his bibliography on the Second International, Georges Haupt made the planned Congress of the International in Vienna August 1914 the last one to be included.1 Although this bibliography begins in 1914, the activities of the Women's International and the Youth International during the First World War have not been included – the split in the Labour movement, which became apparent on August 4, 1914, left these organizations outside the Social-Democratic sphere. They must in the main be considered part of the left wing which in 1919 established itself as the Communist International. The bibliography on the Communist International by Vilem Kahan, of which only volume 1 has as yet been published, begins in 1919, but may include the material of these Internationals in the forthcoming volumes.2 The different Fourth Internationals – of which the various Trotskyist international organizations partly have been covered by Petra and Wolfgang Lubitz3 – also falls outside the scope of the present bibliography. Even if some of these Internationals were founded before 1914, e.g. the Labour Sports International (1913-) and the International Friends of Nature (1895-), only material published in 1914 or later has been included. It has not been possible to locate material from the International Association of Socialist Lawyers, which probably existed between 1928 and 1940 and the International League of Religious Socialists; furthermore the Secretary of the 1 Georges Haupt: La deuxième Internationale 1889-1914. Etude critique des sources. Essai bibliographique, Paris 1964. 2 Vilem Kahan: Bibliography of the Communist International (1919-1979), vol. 1, Leiden 1990. 3 Petra and Wolfgang Lubitz: Trotsky bibliography. An international classified list of publications about Leon Trotsky and trotskyism 1905-1988, München 1999; Trotsky serial bibliography 1927-1991. With locations and indices, München 1993. 8 League failed to react to several letters sent to it. An International Federation of Workers’ Travel Association has been in existence during the 1950ies and 1960ies4, but no published material has been found. Several international conferences of organizations concerned with Social Tourism were held in the 1950ies and 1960ies and a Bureau International du Tourisme Social was founded in 1963 on the ’Fourth International Congress on Social Tourism’. This Bureau published the periodical ’bits information’, but it has not been possible to determine if it was an International according to the criteria used for this bibliography – as yet no printed material from this organization has been found although Conference reports were published. In 1954 an international conference on workers cinemas and films produced by social- democratic organizations and Trade Unions was held in Hamburg.5 According to the produced report it seems that the intention was to develop this co-operation, but no further traces have been found, nor has it been possible to document a further reference to hundreds of films registered at the time. Another cultural organization was a bureau of publishing houses of the Labour movement, the International Literary Agency, which actually existed for several years and published a periodical for some years. The publications by the Asian Socialist Conference and the Socialist Interafrican are included, as are the publications of the SI Fraternal and Associated organizations with two exceptions, and the various European Social Democratic bodies connected with European unification process, unlike other regional bodies, such as the Internationale der Bodensee- Staaten, which was in existence during the 1920ies, and the co-operation between the Social- Democratic parties and Trade Unions in the North-European countries (since 1886). The Internationale Proletarischer Freidenker, the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, SAT, the Internationale des Organisations Culturelles Ouvrières, IDOCO, have not been included in the bibliography as, for various reasons, they were not part of the social-democratic world, although many of the members and officers were. Two of the organizations associated to the Socialist International, viz the World Labour Zionist Federation and the Jewish Labour Bund are not included as they were not considered to be Internationals but as organizations with chapters in various countries. The same goes for the Naturfreunde, which was a Weltverein until in 1950 it constituted