- Jura federation
The Jura federation was the
anti-authoritarian andanarchist section of theInternational Workingmen's Association (also known as the First International), based largely among watch-makers in the Jura mountain range inSwitzerland . The Jura federation was founded inOctober 9 ,1870 at a meeting inSaint-Imier of local sections of the IWA. It, along with other anarchist sections, were expelled from the IWA after theHague Congress (1872) .Anarchists in the Jura federation, like
James Guillaume , would play a key role inPeter Kropotkin 's conversion to anarchism. In "Memoirs of a Revolutionist ", Kropotkin writes that "the egalitarian relations which I found in the Jura Mountains, the independence of thought and expression which I saw developing in the workers, and their unlimited devotion to the cause appealed far more strongly to my feelings; and when I came away from the mountains, after a week's stay with the watchmakers, my views upon socialism were settled. I was an anarchist."ee also
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Anarchist St. Imier International
*Anarchism in France
*International Workers Association
*Mikhail Bakunin
*Paul Brousse
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