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Excerpt from The Two Internationals Known as the Second International, to distinguish it from its predecessor of 1864, which broke down after the franco-german war. The Second International was founded in 1889, and constituted in its modern form of a central International Socialist Bureau in 1900. At the outbreak of war it included twenty-seven countries, with a mem bership of twelve millions. These were composed of the great Socialist or Labour Parties, which each pursued their particular activities in the various countries along their own lines, and with virtual independence. At periodical intervals, usually of three years, the parties met in an International Socialist Congress to pass resolutions on Socialist policy and general questions. Voting went by national sections on a fixed proportion of votes according to relative importance in the Labour and Socialist movement. In the intervening periods the International Socialist Bureau, consisting of three delegates from each national sec tion, was entrusted with the work of carrying out the decisions of the Congresses and arranging for future Congresses. The International Socialist Bureau usually met once a year, and the continuous business was carried on by an Executive composed of members of the Belgian section working with a secretariat at Brussels. This Executive con sisted of Vandervelde (chairman), Camille Huysmans (secretary), and two other members of the Belgian section. The expenses Of the Bureau were defrayed by contributions from the National Labour and Socialist organizations of, the countries affiliated. The International before the war was thus a loose federation of i political parties with no strong central organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.