International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
Alliance Internationale de la Démocratie Socialiste | |
The Alliance membership document | |
| Abbreviation | AIDS |
|---|---|
| Merged into | International Workingmen's Association |
| Successor | Anarchist International |
| Formation | 28 October 1868 |
| Dissolved | De jure: April 1869 De facto: September 1871 |
| Type | Political international |
| Purpose | Revolutionary socialism Collectivist anarchism |
| Headquarters | Geneva |
| Mikhail Bakunin | |
The International Alliance of Socialist Democracy was an organisation founded by Mikhail Bakunin along with 79 other members on 28 October 1868, as an organisation within the International Workingmen's Association (IWA). The establishment of the Alliance as a section of the IWA was not accepted by the general council of the IWA because, according to the IWA statutes, international organisations were not allowed to join because the IWA already fulfilled the role of an international organisation. The Alliance dissolved shortly afterwards and the former members instead joined their respective national sections of the IWA.