Moved by Karl Marx at the meeting of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on November 16, 1869, as entered in the Minute Book; the first paragraph was adopted on November 30 without the word “deliberately”. Attributed to Karl Marx by MEW (vol. 16). Text from The General Council of the First International, 1868-1870. Minutes, Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], p. 183, which prints the Minute Book. Traducción al español.
Resolved,
That in his reply to the Irish demands for the release of the imprisoned Irish patriots (in a reply contained in his letter to Mr. O’Shea d.d. Oct. 18, 1869, and to Mr. Isaac Butt d.d. Oct. 23, 1869) Mr. Gladstone has deliberately insulted the Irish nation;
That he clogs political amnesty with conditions alike degrading to the victims of misgovernment and the people they belong to;
That having in the teeth of his responsible position publicly and enthusiastically cheered on the American slave-holders’ rebellion, he now steps in to preach to the Irish people the doctrine of passive obedience;
That his whole proceedings with reference to the Irish amnesty question are the true and genuine offspring of that “policy of conquest” by the fiery denunciation of which Mr. Gladstone ousted his Tory rivals from office;
That the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association express their admiration of the spirited and high-souled manner in which the Irish people carry on their amnesty movement;
That this resolution be communicated to all the branches of, and working men’s bodies connected with, the International Working Men’s Association in Europe and the United States.