Declaration of the General Council on the Attitude of the British Government towards Tsarist Russia (1868)

The General Council denounces the subserviency of the British Government to Russia, which struck the adjective “Polish” before “refugees” out of the budget one month after the tsar had suppressed the name of Poland.

Karl Marx

Moved by Karl Marx and seconded by Copeland at the meeting of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association of July 14, 1868; published in the report of the meeting in The Bee-Hive, No. 352, July 18, 1868. 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], p. 226, which prints the Minute Book. Traducción al español

The Council of the I.W. Association denounces the last manifestation of the subserviency to Russia of the British Government by suppressing the adjective “Polish” before the word “refugees” in the budget one month after the Russian Government had by an ukase suppressed the name of Poland.