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Title: Preliminary remark to the resolutions of the first congress assembled at Geneva, September, 1866 (1868)
Description: Marx's introductory note to the General Council's edition of the resolutions of the Geneva Congress of the International, republished as part of its platform of principles.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1868-11
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1868%20Preliminary%20remark%20to%20the%20resolutions%20of%20the%20first%20congress%20assembled%20at%20Geneva%2C%20September%2C%201866
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*Written by Karl Marx in the autumn of 1868 for the General Council's edition of the resolutions of the Geneva (1866) and Brussels (1868) congresses, first printed in* The Bee-Hive *of November 21, 1868, and then in the pamphlet* The International Working Men's Association. Resolutions of the Congress of Geneva, 1866, and the Congress of Brussels, 1868 *(London, [1869]). Attributed to Marx by MEGA² (I/21). Text from* The General Council of the First International. Minutes*, vol. III (1868-1870), Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], p. 284, which prints the pamphlet. Only the first paragraph, as in MEGA² (I/21, p. 104); the heading and the sentence introducing the resolutions are left out. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1868%20Observaci%C3%B3n%20preliminar%20a%20las%20resoluciones%20del%20primer%20congreso%20celebrado%20en%20Ginebra%2C%20septiembre%20de%201866)*

As some of the resolutions passed at the first Congress may be considered as part of the platform of principles of the International Working Men’s Association, and the reports of that Congress have had but a limited circulation, the General Council deems it advisable to republish them with the issue of the resolutions passed at the last Congress.