International Alliance of Socialist Democracy

International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
Alliance Internationale de la Démocratie Socialiste
AbbreviationAIDS
Merged intoInternational Workingmen's Association
SuccessorAnarchist International
FormationOctober 28, 1868 (1868-10-28)
DissolvedDe jure: April 1869 (1869-04)
De facto: September 1871 (1871-09)
TypePolitical international
PurposeRevolutionary socialism
Collectivist anarchism
HeadquartersGeneva
Mikhail Bakunin

The International Alliance of Socialist Democracy was an organisation founded by Mikhail Bakunin along with 79 other members on October 28, 1868, as an organisation within the International Workingmen's Association (IWA).[1] The establishment of the Alliance as a section of the IWA was not accepted by the general council of the IWA because, according to the IWA statutes, international organisations were not allowed to join, since the IWA already fulfilled the role of an international organisation. The Alliance dissolved shortly afterwards and the former members instead joined their respective national sections of the IWA.

  1. ^ Leier 2006, p. 251

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