History of Myanmar's labour movement (44/505)

This post presents page 44 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

တပ်ပေါင်း ။ assembly of troops from different units
အခြင်းအရာ ။ state of affairs
သန်ရာသန်ရာ ။
ငြင်းခုံ ။ to argue, dispute
ထာဝစဉ် ။ always, forever, permanently
သန့်စင် ။ to clean, purge
ကြီးထွား ။ to grow, develop
စေ့စပ် ။ to negotiate, settle (a dispute)
ညှိနှိုင်း ။ to coordinate
ခြားနား ။ to differ
အချောင်သမား ။ opportunist

Translation:

[Because the aforementioned parties each differed in basic political ideology and the workers and labour unions accepted the leadership of those separate parties,] there were many kids of associations in the different areas of a country.

After that, with the founding of the Second International in 1885, although acting as a political organisation with the inclusion of Marxist, socialist, social democratic and labour parties in the association, in reality due to taking in the leadership of each and every member party, it became a federation of the union leadership of the workers of all countries. At the very least, it can be said that it was a kind of assembly of workers. Because of that state of affairs, the association of the Second International debated over whether to define itself as a political organisation or a worker organisation. Although all of the international association's member parties were united in the final goal of establishing a socialist structure, since there were many other divisive [issues] about which they did not agree, there were always conflicts in the organisation. In that, a special [matter] was that while the aforementioned labour leader parties were joining together, up until the time of holding successive congresses in Brussels in 1891 and in Zurich in 1893, Karl Marx's colleague Frederich Engels himself arrived to take part and worked hard without rest for the pure development of the association.

At that time in the Second International, despite much collective negotiation, conflicts relating to (1) the split between the Marxist and anarchists; (2) division between internationalists and nationalists; (3) revolution and reformism (opportunism) or Marxists and reformists famously emerged in all countries. Those [conflicts] occurred and as the relations between [political] parties and labour unions broke up, it provided power to the syndicalists who opposed parliamentary politics, [state] socialism, and the ideology of just labour issues.