Socialist Workers' Sport International

1925 Poster for the Workers' Olympiad in Frankfurt

Socialist Workers' Sport International (German: Sozialistische Arbeitersport Internationale, SASI) was an international socialist sporting organisation, based in Lucerne. It was founded in 1920, and consisted of six national federations (with a combined membership of about one million) at the time of its foundation. Initially it was known as International Association for Sports and Physical Culture. Informally it was known as the Lucerne Sport International. It adopted the name SASI in 1926.[1] The Austro-Marxist Julius Deutsch was the president of SASI.[2]

International Labour Sports Federation (CSIT) was established in 1946 as the successor of SASI.[3]

  1. ^ Kidd, Bruce. The Struggle for Canadian Sport. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. p. 153
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference wheel was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger & James Riordan (eds.) (1996). The Story of Worker Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. ISBN 978-0873228749; Halevi Olin (ed.) (2013). Sport, Peace and Development. International Worker Sport. 1913 - 2013. Wien: CSIT ISBN 978-3-9503593-1-2

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