Commission for International Anarchist Relations Archives
| Period: | 1948-1949 (1954) |
| Total size: | 0.15 m. |
| Consultation | Not restricted |
History
Founded in Paris during an European Anarchist Congress in May 1948; the activities were organized by a French, Italian, Spanish and Jewish representative and supported by Bulgarian anarcho-communists in Paris; a branch of CRIA was set up in Montevideo, Uruguay; its purpose was to inform the various libertarian groups of each others' activities and to prepare anarchist world congresses; set up an archive of the anarchist movement; its organ was CRIA.
Content
Documents on the European Anarchist Conference in Paris 15-17 May 1948: protocol, correspondence, circulars, statements, reports; documents on the preparation of a world conference in 1949: correspondence, replies to questionnaires and statements by anarchist groups and organizations from all over the world, reports, typescripts of articles; memorandum on the history and present position of the CRIA and the international anarchist movement 1954; some printed material.