Moved by Hermann Jung, on Marx’s instructions, and seconded by Dupont at the meeting of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association of June 2, 1868 (Marx had given notice of a resolution on the subject on May 26); after discussion on June 9 and 16 Marx withdrew it, and the Congress met at Brussels. 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. 213-214, which prints the Minute Book; the word in square brackets is supplied by that edition. Traducción al español
Considering, that the Belgian Parliament has just prolongated for three years the law by which every foreigner may be expelled [from] the country by the Belgian executive government;
that the dignity of the I.W. Association is incompatible with the meeting of the Congress at a place where they would be at the mercy of the local police;
that Article 3 of the Rules of the I.W.A. provides that the General Council may, in case of need, change the place of meeting of the Congress;
the General Council resolves that the Congress of the I.W.A. do assemble in London on the 5th of September, 1868.