A special issue of Inprecor devoted to the First International on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of its 1864 founding. With contributions from veteran Marx historians Theo Rothstein and David Riazanov, the Comintern’s agit-prop department, and Marx’s own November 4, 1864 letter to Engels on its creation, linked to online text below.

International Press Correspondence. Vol. 4 No. 67. September 25, 1924.

Contents: The Sixtieth Anniversary of the First International by Theodor Rothstein, Thesis on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Founding of the First International by the AgitProp Department of the Communist International, The Founding of the First International by N. Riazanov, Letter from Marx to Engels on the Founding of the First International (November 4, 1864).

International Press Correspondence, widely known as”Inprecor” was published by the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) regularly in German and English, occasionally in many other languages, beginning in 1921 and lasting in English until 1938. Inprecor’s role was to supply translated articles to the English-speaking press of the International from the Comintern’s different sections, as well as news and statements from the ECCI. Many ‘Daily Worker’ and ‘Communist’ articles originated in Inprecor, and it also published articles by American comrades for use in other countries. It was published at least weekly, and often thrice weekly. A major contributor to the Communist press in the U.S., Inprecor is an invaluable English-language source on the history of the Communist International and its sections.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/inprecor/1924/v04n67-sep-25-1924-Inprecor-loc.pdf