Written by Frederick Engels, with additions by Karl Marx, about September 9, 1871; manuscript, with a double numbering of the points (the first one in bold in the Moscow edition). Attributed to Marx and Engels by MEGA² (I/22). Text from The General Council of the First International. Minutes, vol. IV (1870-1871), Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], pp. 315-316, which prints the manuscript. Traducción al español
Propositions to be submitted to the Conference by the General Council
1). 1) That after the close of the Conference, no branch be acknowledged as belonging to the Association by the General Council and by the Central Councils of the various countries until its annual contribution of 1d. per head for the current year shall have been remitted to the General Council.
2). 2) L) For those countries in which the regular organisation of the Association may for the moment become impossible by Government interference, the delegates of each Country are invited to propose such plans of organisation as may be compatible with the peculiar circumstances of the Case; N) the Association may be reformed under other names; J) but all secret organisations are formally excluded.
3). 3) The General Council will submit to the Conference a report of its administration of the affairs of the International since the last Congress.
5). 5) The General Council will propose to the Conference to discuss the propriety of issuing a reply to the various governments which have prosecuted and are now prosecuting the International; the Conference to name a Committee to be charged with drawing up this reply after its close.
4). 4) Resolution of Congress of Basle to be enforced: That to avoid confusion the Central Councils of the various countries be instructed to designate themselves henceforth as Federal Councils with the name attached of the Country they represent; and that the local branches and their Committees designate themselves as branches or Committees of their respective localities.
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3). 7) That all delegates of the General Council appointed to distinct missions shall have the right to attend, and be heard at, all meetings of Federal Councils and local Committees or branches, without however being thereby entitled to vote thereat.
- That the General Council be instructed to issue a fresh edition of the Statutes including the resolutions of the Congresses having relation thereto; and in as much as a mutilated French translation has hitherto been in circulation in France, and re-translated into Spanish and Italian, that it provide an authentic French translation which is to be forwarded to Spain and Italy also. German—[to] Holland.
Three languages printed side by side.