RUDÁ ODBOROVÁ INTERNACIONÁLA
RED INTERNATIONAL LABOUR UNION

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the Red International Labour Union (ROI, Profintern) that was established in July 1921 as an adjacent organisation to Comintern. Apart from Soviet Trade Unions it contained especially communist minorities working within trade unions organised in the social democrat International Trade Unions (Amsterdam Union Headquarters). From European unions, the ROI included Confédération générale du travail unitaire (CGTU) and Czechoslovak Red Trade Unions; it gained on attractiveness also for trade unions in the Third world. The ROI supported the efforts of bolshevisation of the communist movement, it tried mostly to push through the unyielding approach in workers strikes. Despite partial success it never managed to threaten the position of the International Trade Unions, it was disbanded at the end of 1937, since the Soviet leadership saw it as an obstacle in carrying out the united front policy.

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