Madrid Congress
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The Madrid Congress was the Fourth Congress of the Spanish Regional Federation of the International Workingmen's Association (FRE-AIT) that was held in Madrid in June 1874.
Native name | Congreso de Madrid |
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Date | 21–27 June 1874 (1874-06-21 – 1874-06-27) |
Duration | 6 days |
Location | Madrid, Spain |
Also known as | Fourth Congress of the FRE-AIT |
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Motive | The reorganization of the FRE-AIT |
Organised by | Spanish Regional Federation of the International Workingmen's Association |
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Unlike the previous three, the congress was held in hiding since the International had been banned five months earlier by Francisco Serrano, new head of government and state after the triumph of Manuel Pavia's coup d'état that ended the First Spanish Republic. In the Madrid Congress it was decided that no more general congresses would be held until legality was recovered, being replaced by regional congresses. The Congress also ratified the anarchist theses of the Anarchist International to which the FRE had been attached since its foundation in the St. Imier Congress of September 1872.