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Edo Fimmen - Internationalist Pioneer

Labour's Alternative by Edo Fimmen

 

Further reading:
The International Transportworkers' Federation 1914-1945 - The Edo Fimmen Era,
fifteen authors, editor: Bob Reinalda, IISG, Amsterdam, 1997, 301 p.
Available from: International Transport Workers' Federation, ITF House,
49-60 Borough Road, GB - London SE1 1DR,
e-mail: mail@itf.org.uk

Willy Buschak: Edo Fimmen, Der schöne Traum von Europa und die Globalisierung, Eine Biografie; Klartext Verlag, Essen, 2002, 333 p.

Preface to the 1924 edition:A.A. Purcell
 Preface by Dan Gallin
Introduction by Dan Gallin
Edo Fimmen by Sigvard Nyström

CHAPTER ONE: The Concentration of Capital and Its Causes
I.  From Large Scale Industry to Mammoth Industry
2. Economic Causes
3. Technical Causes
4. Dearth of Capital and Glut of Capital

CHAPTER TWO: The Internationalisation of Capitalist Interests
I. Changes in the Basis of Production
2. Colonisation of Europe
3. Industrialisation of the Colonies.
4. Internationalisation of Capitalist Interests a World Wide Phenomenon

:CHAPTER THREE: The Dwindling of Competition in the World Market
I. International Cartels in The Past
2. Developments of the Post-War Period

CHAPTER FOUR: The Dangers that Beset the Working Class
I.  Enhanced Fighting power of the Employers
2. Division of Labour Among the Employers
3. Improvements in Machinery as Weapons Against the Workers
4. International Direct Action
5. War on the Workers as Consumers

CHAPTER FIVE: The need for the International Organisation of the Struggle.
1.  How the Trade Unions are Organised Today
2.  From Local Organisations to National Organisations
3.  The Need for International Trade Union Consolidation and International Guidance of the Struggle
4.  International Organisation of the Struggle Will Lead to Victory
Postscript

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