The International Workers' Association (IWA) (Spanish: AIT - Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores, and in German: IAA-Internationale ArbeiterInnen Assoziation) is an international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries. It was founded as the International Workingmen's Association in 1922, at a Berlin congress of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions.

Previously, the same name was used to refer to the unitarian socialist international organisation founded in 1864. But this first International wasn't able to withstand the differences between anarchist and Marxist currents, being dissolved some time later. Not only modern IWA-AIT but also the Socialist International and the Communist International find in this first experiment of worldwide working class movement their own origins.

Groups in the IWA include:

• Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT, Spain)
• Confédération nationale du travail (CNT-AIT, France)
• Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union (FAU, Germany)
• Solidarity Federation (SolFed, United Kingdom)
• Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI or USI-AIT, Italy)

Other anarchist internationals

• Anarchist St. Imier International (1872 - 1877)
• International of Anarchist Federations (1968 - )
• Black Bridge International (2001 - )

External links

• International Workers' Association
• A history of the IWA from 1922 to today on libcom.org.

Syndicalism | International and regional union federations | Anarchist organizations

Associació Internacional de Treballadors | Internationale ArbeiterInnen-Assoziation | Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores | Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores