0. The Communist International – Socialist Worker’s major nine part series

The Communist International, known as the Comintern, was an organising centre for revolutionaries formed in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Here John Riddell, the pre-eminent historian of the International, begins a series for Socialist Worker on the Comintern’s lessons for today.

The first column is a prologue that examines earlier discussions on war and socialist unity at the 1907 Stuttgart conference in Germany on it’s 100th anniversary. The series proper will start in mid-September