The International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress held in London from July 26 to August 1, 1896 was the fourth congress of the

Second International The Second International (1889–1916) was an organisation of socialist and labour parties, formed on 14 July 1889 at two simultaneous Paris meetings in which delegations from twenty countries participated. The Second International continued th ...

. The congress has been described as "the most agitated, the most tumultuous, and the most chaotic of all the congresses of the Second International" because of the many factional disputes between and within the national delegations. The congress was the only one of the Second International to have its proceedings published in English. The chairman was Henry Hyndman.

Resolutions

The Congress passed resolutions on the Agrarian question, political action, education, the position of the working class regarding

militarism Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values. It may also imply the glorification of the mili ...

, the industrial question and the further organization of social democracy. It also passed motions regarding the independence of Cuba, Macedonia and Armenia,

tsarism Tsarist autocracy (russian: царское самодержавие, transcr. ''tsarskoye samoderzhaviye''), also called Tsarism, was a form of autocracy (later absolute monarchy) specific to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states th ...

monarchism Monarchism is the advocacy of the system of monarchy or monarchical rule. A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government independently of any specific monarch, whereas one who supports a particular monarch is a royalist. ...

, and adopted a special address from the Bulgarian Social Democrats.Haupt, Georges ''La Deuxième Internationale, 1889-1914: étude critique des sources, essai bibliographique'' p. 154

References

External links

''Proceedings of the International Worker's Congress, London, July-August, 1896''
* ttps://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/self-det/ch07.htm V. I. Lenin on London Congress' resolution on the right of nations to self-determination History of socialism Second International 1896 in London 1896 conferences {{trade-union-stub