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Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later, edited by Marcello Musto (Bloomsbury, £16.99)
The foundation of the First International is forever doomed to have its anniversaries overshadowed by falling in the same years as the world commemorates the war that began in 1914.
The latter event was in its essence the negation of the International born 50 years earlier, which had proclaimed that international rule will be peace because its national ruler will everywhere be the same “Labour.”
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