International

international

1. of, concerning, or involving two or more nations or nationalities

2. established by, controlling, or legislating for several nations

3. available for use by all nations

4. Sport

a. a contest between two national teams

b. a member of these teams

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International

any of several international socialist organizations

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

International

 

a group of German left-wing social democrats which was formed at an underground conference held in Berlin in March 1915. The group issued a journal under the same name in April 1915, including articles by K. Liebknecht, R. Luxemburg, C. Zetkin, and F. Mehring. The group organized antiwar demonstrations in a number of cities and prepared and distributed materials furthering the political education of the masses. A program of revolutionary struggle against the war was worked out and was approved by an all-German conference of the International on Jan. 1, 1916. From this time, the group became known as the Spartacus group, later adopting the name “Spartacus League.”

REFERENCES

Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, vol. 2. Berlin, 1966.
Wolgemuth, H. Die Entstehung der Kommunistischen Partei Deutsch-lands 1914 bis 1918. Berlin, 1968.

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