Draft Resolutions on the Admission of Working Men’s Organisations to the International Working Men’s Association (1864)

Moved by Karl Marx, seconded by Wheeler, at the meeting of the Central Council of the International Working Men’s Association of November 22, 1864; the second resolution is recorded as carried unanimously. A different version of the second resolution appeared in The Bee-Hive Newspaper (London). Attributed to Karl Marx by MEW (vol. 16); MEGA² I/20 gives them within the Minute Book of the Central Council. Text from The General Council of the First International. Minutes, vol. I (1864-1866), Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d. [1963-68], p. 49, which prints the Minute Book. Traducción al español

I

That organised bodies of working men be invited to join this Association in their co-operative capacity, the amount of their contributions to be left to their means and discretion.

II

That societies joining this Association shall have the power to elect a representative to sit on the Central Council, the Council reserving to itself the power to accept or reject such delegates.