July 1889 14 is the centenary of the French people's occupation of the Bastille. On this day, the International Congress of Socialist Workers opened in Paris. In fact, this is the second international founding conference.
393 delegates from 22 countries in Europe and America attended the meeting. Portraits of Marx and Engels were hung at the venue, and the red cloth on the front of the rostrum read "Proletarians of the world, unite!" Slogan, grand and warm conference, shows the extensive spread of Marxism and the great development of proletarian movement in the past 40 years. Liebknecht was elected as the executive chairman of the meeting. In his opening speech, Laverg called on the working class to make every effort to speed up the destruction of the "Bastille" in capitalist society. Engels failed to attend the meeting in person in order to finish the sorting out of the third volume of Das Kapital as soon as possible, but he enthusiastically supported the meeting and called it a glorious victory.
On July 15, the second day after the International Socialist Workers' Congress was held, the "Possible School" also pieced together its own congress in Paris to compete with the Second International. Except for the Social Democratic Union in Britain, no other major political parties in Europe sent representatives to attend the meeting convened by the "Possibility School", which actually became a veritable French "Possibility School" meeting. The conference venue was deserted, in sharp contrast to the grand and warm atmosphere of the International Socialist Workers' Congress.
The International Socialist Workers' Congress listened to the work reports of representatives of socialist political parties in various countries and discussed some major issues that needed to be solved urgently in the international workers' movement at that time. After fierce struggle, the Congress rejected the fallacy of opportunists and adopted the Resolution on International Labor Protection Legislation and the Resolution on Political and Economic Struggle. The former clearly points out that only when the proletariat seizes political power and deprives the bourgeoisie of the means of production and makes it public property can working human beings be liberated.
The congress also adopted an important resolution, which designated May 1 day as an international proletarian festival, and called on the working class of all countries to organize large-scale demonstrations on this day every year to show the unity of the international proletariat and fight for the realization of the resolution of the congress. After the Paris Congress, the proletariat of all countries warmly responded to the call to celebrate May Day. On May 1890 and 1 day, unprecedented demonstrations broke out in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States, Sweden and Norway. At the age of 70, Engels personally participated in the May Day Workers' Parade in London, England.
The International Socialist Congress held in Paris on July 20th marked the establishment of the Second International. Before Engels died, the Second International basically carried out the Marxist line, United the working class, opposed anarchism and right-wing ideological trends, widely spread Marxism, and promoted the extensive development of workers' organizations and movements in various countries.
19 14 when the first world war broke out, the revisionist leaders of all parties in the second international openly supported the war, served their own bourgeoisie, betrayed proletarian internationalism, and completely bankrupt the second international.