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Title: Resolutions of the General Council on the Convocation and the Agenda of the Congress at The Hague (1872)
Description: Resolutions written by Engels by which the General Council convokes the Congress of the International at The Hague for September 2, 1872, and places the revision of the General Rules and Regulations on its agenda.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1872-06-18
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1872%20Resolutions%20of%20the%20General%20Council%20on%20the%20Convocation%20and%20the%20Agenda%20of%20the%20Congress%20at%20The%20Hague
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*Written by Frederick Engels and adopted by the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on June 18, 1872; published in The International Herald, No. 13, June 29, 1872, and, in translation, in other papers of the International. Attributed to Engels by MEW (vol. 18); MEGA² I/23 not yet published. Title of the Moscow edition. Text of Engels’s English manuscript, from The General Council of the First International. Minutes, vol. V (1871-1872), Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], pp. 418-419, which prints the manuscript. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1872%20Resoluciones%20del%20Consejo%20General%20de%20la%20Asociaci%C3%B3n%20Internacional%20de%20los%20Trabajadores%20del%2018%20de%20junio%20de%201872)*

Considering the resolution of the Congress of Basel fixing the seat of the next Congress at Paris;

Also the resolution of the General Council dated 12/7/70, by which, it being then impossible to hold a Congress in Paris, and conformable with Article 4 of the General Rules, the Congress was convoked to meet at Mainz;

Considering further that up to this day the Government persecutions directed against the International in France, as well as in Germany, render impossible the meeting of a Congress either in Paris or in Mainz.

Conformably with Article 4 of the General Rules, which confers upon the General Council the right of changing, in case of need, the place of meeting of the Congress; the General Council convokes the next Congress of the I.W.M.A. for Monday, September 2nd, 1872, at The Hague, Holland.

Considering that the questions contained in the programme of the Congress which was to be held at Mainz on the 5th September 1870 do not correspond with the present wants of the International, these wants having been profoundly affected by the great historic events which have taken place since then;

That numerous sections and federations belonging to various countries have proposed that the next Congress should occupy itself with the revision of the General Rules and Regulations;

That the persecutions to which the International finds itself exposed at this moment in almost all European countries, impose upon it the duty of strengthening its organisation.

The General Council, while reserving to itself the faculty of drawing up hereafter a more extensive programme, to be completed by the propositions of the sections and federations, places on the order of the day as the most important question to be discussed by the Congress of The Hague:

The revision of the General Rules and Regulations.

London, 18 June 1872