Communist labor movements and their global entanglements in second half of the 20th century

该项目重建了作为20世纪全球劳工运动一部分的共产主义工会成员的流动性。因此，这项研究描绘了两次世界大战之前和之间的共产主义工会会员网络是否以及如何在冷战和非殖民化开始时留下了遗产。它旨在探索和识别工会主义者对共产主义的不同想象，他们的全球网络和互动空间。虽然该项目受益于关于全球移民的社会学和历史流动性研究，但它重建了政治议程驱动的流动性。所谓的社会主义阵营的不动性受到了研究的挑战，这些研究重建了跨越苏联集团边界的流动共产主义行动者的跨国动态，并寻求与“西方”和“全球南方”的联系。这个项目的目的是重建共产主义工会积极分子在20世纪下半叶的多元化流动，从而在两个方向上。首先，考察了共产主义劳工运动与“西方”劳工运动、世界工会联合会（WFTU）、其与国际自由工会联合会（ICFTU）的互动，以及世界自由工会联合会在国际劳工组织（ILO）中的参与之间的纠缠。其次，该研究追踪了来自“全球南方”的共产主义工会积极分子的遭遇和流动。该项目将聚焦于两个案例研究：一个是印度，因为印度在劳工运动方面有着悠久的传统，它在引领集团竞争和不结盟运动方面发挥了关键作用；墨西哥在国际共产主义历史上有着特殊的地位，在墨西哥的想象中，20世纪10年代的墨西哥革命及其后果对共产主义者起了重要作用。

The project reconstructs the mobilities of communist trade unionists as part of the global labor movement in the 20th century. The study thus maps if and how the networks of the communist trade unionists before and between the two world wars left a legacy during the beginning of the Cold War and decolonization. It aims to explore and identify the trade unionist´s different imaginaries of communism, their global networks and spaces of interaction. While the project profits from sociological and historical mobility studies about global migration, it reconstructs mobility driven by political agendas. The alleged immobility of the socialist camp has been challenged by studies, which reconstruct the transnational dynamics of mobile communist actors crossing the boundaries of the Soviet bloc as well as searching for contacts to the "West" and the "Global South". The purpose of this project is to reconstruct the plurality of mobilities of communist trade union activists in the second half of the 20th century, thus in two directions. Firstly, the entanglements between communist labor movements with those of the "West" are examined, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), its interactions with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), as well as the engagement of the WFTU in the International Labor Organization (ILO). Secondly, the study traces encounters with and mobilities of communist trade union activists from the "Global South". The project will zoom in on two case studies: on India, because of the country’s longer tradition on labor movements, and its key role in the navigation of the bloc competition and of the non-alignment movement; and on Mexico, which has a peculiar position in the history of international communism, and for whose imaginaries the Mexican revolution of the 1910s and its aftermath has played an important role for communists.