A look at the\u00a0 battle for working class support waged between 19th century anti-socialist radicalism and socialism,\u00a0 not only within the International Workingmen’s Association\u00a0 (IWMA) where “moderate” trades unionists like George Odger and Randall Cremer opposed Karl Marx’s ideas and interventions, but outside the IWMA, where addressing crowds of over a thousand , the leading radical orator Charles Bradlaugh ( and ally of Odger and Cremer)\u00a0 launched an all out attack on Karl Marx\u00a0 for the support he gave to the\u00a0 Commune of Paris in his June 1871 IWMA pamphlet “The Civil War in France” . Arguably Bradlaugh’s co-ordinated campaign against Marx\u00a0 was a major factor\u00a0 in the demise of the IWMA just a year later.<\/p>\n
The talk launches the Socialist History Society’s Occasional Pamphlet number 28, Bradlaugh Contra Marx, Radicalism vs Socialism in the First International Thursday 7pm June 10th 2010 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A look at the\u00a0 battle for working class support waged between 19th century anti-socialist radicalism and socialism,\u00a0 not only within the International Workingmen’s Association\u00a0 (IWMA) where “moderate” trades unionists like George Odger and Randall Cremer opposed Karl Marx’s ideas and interventions, but outside the IWMA, where addressing crowds of over a thousand , the leading … <\/p>\n
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