International Workingmen’s Association

Also known as: First International

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Organization Timeline

Paris elects the Council of the Commune

📅 26 March 1871

Parisian voters elected representatives to a municipal council. The results gave influence to Jacobins, Blanquists, Internationalists, socialists and other republican revolutionaries, although...

The Commune orders workers to organize abandoned workshops

📅 16 April 1871

Trade-union and workers’ organizations were asked to identify workshops abandoned by their owners and prepare plans for their operation by cooperative associations. The decree became one of the...

A minority withdraws from the Commune’s council

📅 15 May 1871

Members opposing the Committee of Public Safety announced that they would withdraw from council meetings and work in their districts. They objected to concentrating power in an executive committee.

Eugène Varlin is captured and killed

📅 28 May 1871

Eugène Varlin, a labour organizer and member of the Commune, was recognized, beaten and shot at Montmartre without trial.