Chapter II: International Communist Organizations and Publications

=COMMUNIST LEAGUE=

1847 Communist League organized under Marx’s influence from League
of the Just.
1852 Communist League dissolved at Marx’s proposal.

=FIRST INTERNATIONAL=

1864 The First International, or International Workingmen’s
Association, founded in London.
1872 First International voted to move headquarters to New York on
Engels’ proposal. Split over the proposal caused eventual
dissolution.
1876 July 15: First International dissolved in congress at
Philadelphia.

=SECOND INTERNATIONAL (SOCIALIST)=

1889 July 14: The Second International formed at Paris.
1914-18 Effective work of Second International, to all intents and
purposes, ended during World War I. Violently attacked by
Lenin as “bourgeois.”

=THIRD (COMMUNIST) INTERNATIONAL Also Known As COMINTERN=

1919 March 2-6: Formed in Moscow.
1920 July-August: Second Congress of Comintern in Moscow, which
adopted the “twenty-one points” of admission.
1935 July 25-August 20: Seventh Congress of Comintern in Moscow, at
which United Front program instituted.
1943 June 10: Comintern dissolved.

=COMMUNIST INFORMATION BUREAU Also Known As COMINFORM=

1947 Formed in Poland, with headquarters to be in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia.
1948 Cominform denounced Tito and threatened expulsion of Tito
and his top aides for “hateful” policy toward Russia.
Denunciation prepared at meeting of Cominform in Roumania.
Yugoslav Communist Party defied charges.
1948 July: Headquarters of Cominform moved to Bucharest, Roumania.
1956 April: Cominform dissolved.

=YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL=

1919 Young Communist International formed in Berlin.
1943 Dissolved.

=INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST PUBLICATIONS=

1919 May: First issue of _The Communist International_, organ of
the Executive Committee of the Communist International.
1943 July 5: Last issue of _The Communist International_, after
dissolution of Comintern.
1947 November 10: _For a Lasting Peace, for a People’s Democracy!_
published in Belgrade, characterizing itself as “Organ of
the Information Bureau of the Communist Parties in Belgrade”
(published in Bucharest, Roumania after Cominform attack on
Tito).
1956 April: _For a Lasting Peace, for a People’s Democracy!_ ceased
publication.