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Title: Propositions to the General Council concerning Preparations for the London Conference (1871)
Description: Notes by Marx and Engels for the General Council on the practical preparations for the London Conference of the International.
Author: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Date: 1871-08
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1871%20Propositions%20to%20the%20General%20Council%20concerning%20Preparations%20for%20the%20London%20Conference
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*Written by Frederick Engels, with the words “by the Council” added by Karl Marx, in the summer of 1871, before the London Conference of the International Working Men’s Association (September 17-23, 1871); manuscript. 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], p. 314, which prints the manuscript. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1871%20Propuestas%20al%20Consejo%20General%20para%20preparar%20la%20Conferencia%20de%20Londres)*

Rechnungsablage.

1) To find a room for the meetings of the Conference.

2) To find an hotel where the members of the Conference can stay—propose the same as last, Leicester Square.

3) A Committee to be appointed to arrange these two points.

4) That the entire Council assist at the meetings of the Conference, with the right of taking part in the debate, but that a certain number of the Council only be delegated with the right of voting—such number to be fixed by the Council when the number of delegates to the Conference shall be known.

5) That the Frenchmen, now resident in London who are acknowledged members of the International, provide for the representation of France at the Conference by three delegates.

6) That if the members of any Country should not be represented at the Conference, the Corresponding Secretary for that Country be appointed to represent them.