Profintern
Sign in to saveThe Red International of Labour Unions (, RILU), commonly known as the Profintern (), was an international body established by the Communist International (Comintern) with the aim of coordinating communist activities within trade unions.
Key facts
- Union.name
- Profintern
- Union.location_country
- International
- Union.affiliation
- Communist International
- Union.full_name
- Red International of Labour Unions
- Union.native_name
- Красный интернационал профсоюзов
- Union.image
- Red International of Labor Unions logo.svg
- Union.founded
- 3 July 1921
- Union.dissolved
- 1937
- Union.headquarters
- Moscow, Soviet Union
- Union.key_people
- Mikhail TomskySolomon LozovskyAndreu Nin
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- Organizational history
- Preliminary organization
- The foundation congress of 1921
- The 2nd World Congress of 1922
- The 3rd World Congress of 1924
- RILU in the East
- Personnel and branches
- Dissolution
- Meetings
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
The Red International of Labour Unions (, RILU), commonly known as the Profintern (), was an international body established by the Communist International (Comintern) with the aim of coordinating communist activities within trade unions.
Formally established in 1921, the Profintern aimed to act as a counterweight to the influence of the so-called "Amsterdam International", the social-democratic International Federation of Trade Unions (founded in 1919), an organization which the Comintern branded as "class-collaborationist" and as an impediment to revolution. After entering a period of decline in the middle 1930s, the Profintern was finally dissolved in 1937 with the advent of Comintern's "Popular Front" policy.