{"id":164,"date":"2018-01-05T21:49:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=164"},"modified":"2018-02-13T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:51:14","slug":"annie-besant-and-the-two-separate-inaugural-congresses-of-the-second-international-paris-august-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Annie Besant and the Two Separate Inaugural Congresses of the Second International: Paris, August 1889."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Besant&#8217;s interventions at the two conflicting inaugural Congresses of the Second International in Paris 1889 are now little remembered. Yet with other anti-socialist radical\u00a0 and trade union allies, she fought hard and successfully to prevent the two\u00a0 congresses (the <em>Possibilist<\/em> and the <em>Marxist<\/em>)\u00a0 from merging.\u00a0 And she worked equally hard, but this time unsuccessfully, to prevent the adoption of the statutory Eight Hour Working Day as a key Second International demand.<\/p>\n<p>Annie Besant was the Pall Mall Gazette&#8217;s correspondent in Paris for the duration of the two inaugural Second International congresses\u00a0 and her heavily slanted reports\u00a0 reveal far more than she knew.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is part of the two\u00a0day conference at the School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK to be held on\u00a015-16 February 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the UEA School of History, in conjunction with the journal Socialist History and the Institute of Working Class History (Chicago) are hosting a conference on &#8220;<em>Workers&#8217; Internationalism before 1914<\/em>&#8220;.<br \/>\nCheck website for details of the many other speakers<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.uea.ac.uk\/history\/news-and-events\/workers-internationalism<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Besant&#8217;s interventions at the two conflicting inaugural Congresses of the Second International in Paris 1889 are now little remembered. Yet with other anti-socialist radical\u00a0 and trade union allies, she fought hard and successfully to prevent the two\u00a0 congresses (the Possibilist and the Marxist)\u00a0 from merging.\u00a0 And she worked equally hard, but this time unsuccessfully, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Annie Besant and the Two Separate Inaugural Congresses of the Second International: Paris, August 1889.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahlavin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}