Profintern
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The Profintern (Red International of Labour Unions, RILU) was the Comintern's international federation of radical trade unions, founded in Moscow in July 1921. It was established as a revolutionary counterweight to the social-democratic Amsterdam International, seeking to coordinate communist activity within unions worldwide. At its peak in the early 1920s, it claimed over 13 million members and held significant influence in France, Czechoslovakia, and the colonial world. It was dissolved in 1937 as the Comintern shifted toward the Popular Front strategy.
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- Wikipedia (EN) Founding (July 1921), organizational history, relationship to Comintern, dissolution (1937)
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian article: founding congress details, Mezhsovprof precursor, four congresses (1921, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1930), Lozovsky as general secretary
- Marxists Internet Archive John Riddell survey: Profintern as the most powerful Comintern auxiliary, syndicalist participation, 1928 ultraleft turn, secret dissolution 1937