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Title: Draft Resolution on the Attitude of the International Working Men’s Association towards the Congress of the League of Peace and Freedom (1867)
Description: Resolution moved by Marx and carried by the General Council: the International will take no official part in the Geneva Peace Congress of 1867.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1867-08-13
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1867%20Draft%20Resolution%20on%20the%20Attitude%20of%20the%20International%20Working%20Men%27s%20Association%20towards%20the%20Congress%20of%20the%20League%20of%20Peace%20and%20Freedom
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*Moved by Karl Marx at the end of his speech at the meeting of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association of August 13, 1867, and unanimously agreed to. Attributed to Karl Marx by MEW (vol. 16). Text from* The General Council of the First International. Minutes*, vol. II (1866-1868), Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], pp. 152-153, which prints the Minute Book (for this meeting a clipping from* The Bee-Hive*, No. 305, August 17, 1867, pasted into it). In the report the resolution is given in quotation marks within the summary of Marx’s speech. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1867%20Proyecto%20de%20resoluci%C3%B3n%20sobre%20la%20actitud%20de%20la%20Internacional%20ante%20el%20congreso%20de%20la%20Liga%20de%20la%20Paz%20y%20de%20la%20Libertad)*

That the delegates of the Council be instructed not to take any official part in the Peace Congress, and to resist any motion that might be brought forward at the Working Men’s Congress tending to take an official part.