
In 1904, Pierre's brother Adolphe was induced by the Lille mayor Gustave Delory to claim copyright, so that the income of the song would continue to go to Delory's French Socialist Party. In a successful attempt to save Pierre De Geyter's job as a woodcarver, the 6,000 leaflets printed by Lille printer Bolboduc only mentioned the French version of his family name (Degeyter).

Thus "The Internationale" gained an identity that was entirely distinct, and no longer in any way directly tied to the French national anthem, the Marseillaise. De Geyter's melody was first publicly performed in July 1888, and soon thereafter Pottier's lyrics became closely associated with, and widely used with, De Geyter's new melody. In 1888 Pierre De Geyter (1848–1932) set the earlier lyrics to the melody of Chant du depart with slight modifications. The original French words were written in June 1871 by Eugène Pottier (1816–1887, previously a member of the Paris Commune) and were originally intended to be sung to the tune of " La Marseillaise". 4.5.2 National Revolutionary Army version.It was also used as a national anthem by the Chinese Soviet Republic, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Slovak Soviet Republic, and Hungarian Soviet Republic. (In 1917 and early 1918 Worker's Marseillaise was used as such). įrom 1918 to 1944, "The Internationale" was used as an anthem of the Bolshevik Party, Soviet Russia and subsequently the USSR, before being replaced with the more nationally-focused State Anthem of the Soviet Union, reflecting Stalinist trends. "The Internationale" has been adopted as the anthem of various anarchist, communist, and socialist movements. In turn, the song was later set to an original melody composed by Pierre De Geyter, a Marxist.

The author of the anthem's lyrics, Eugène Pottier, an anarchist, attended this congress.

The title arises from the " First International", an alliance of workers which held a congress in 1864. It has been a standard of the socialist movement since the late nineteenth century, when the Second International adopted it as its official anthem. " The Internationale" ( French: "L'Internationale", ) is a left-wing anthem.
