Moved by Karl Marx at the meeting of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on May 17, 1870, and carried unanimously. Attributed to Karl Marx by MEW (vol. 16); MEGA² I/21 gives Marx’s notice of the congress (“Bekanntmachung des Generalrats … zur Einberufung des Jahreskongresses nach Mainz”). Text from The General Council of the First International, 1868-1870. Minutes, Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], p. 238, which prints the Minute Book. Traducción al español.
Considering,
That by the Basle Congress Paris was appointed as the meeting-place for this year’s Congress of the International Working Men’s Association;
That the present French regime continuing, the Congress will not be able to meet at Paris;
That nevertheless the preparations for the meeting render an immediate resolution necessary;
That article 3 of the Statutes obliges the Council to change, in case of need, the place of meeting appointed by the Congress;
That the Central Committee of the German Social-Democratic Working Men’s Party has invited the General Council to transfer this year’s Congress to Germany;
The General Council has in its sitting of the 17th of May unanimously resolved that this year’s Congress of the International Working Men’s Association be opened on the 5th September next and meet at Mayence.