In 1883 it formed a working alliance with the Italian Democratic Society-an active working-class body of which Costa was a leading member; and in 1884 it entered into an incorporating union with another working-class body, the Lombardy Labour federation, which had a large number of local branches.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The old Jurassian federation of the International, still continues to exist in French-speaking Switzerland, and to bear witness for the extremest kind of anarchist communism-no force or authority whatever, and a collective consumption of products as well as a collective production; but this body is not increasing, and though Guesde, the French socialist, made a lecturing tour through that division of Switzerland in 1885, he had quite as little success for his branch of the revolutionary cause.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
In 1883 the Democratic federation, which had been established two years before to promote measures of Radical reform, including, among other things, the nationalization of the land, adopted the socialistic principles of Karl Marx, and changed its name to the Social Democratic federation.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae