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Articles by and about the International Working Men's Association (IWMA) or First International and its members.
The Nationalisation of the Land
The First International Working Men's Association
THE NATIONALISATION OF THE LAND.
A Paper read at the Manchester Section of the International Working Men's Association.
by KARL MARX
Written in March-April 1872 Published in The International Herald No. 11, June 15, 1872
The property in the soil is the original source of all wealth, and has become the great problem upon the solution of which depends the future of the working class.
Introduction to the First International
INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION aka The First International
When the International was formed in September 1864, Marx was "a relatively obscure refugee journalist," Saul Padover notes in the introduction to a volume of select works written by Marx for the International:
Instructions for the Delegates of the Provisional General Council
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DELEGATES OF THE PROVISIONAL GENERAL COUNCIL.
THE DIFFERENT QUESTIONS
by KARL MARX
Written at the end of August 1866 First published in Der Vorbote Nos. 10 and 11, October and November 1866 and The International Courier Nos. 6/7, February 20, and Nos. 8/10, March 13, 1867
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Organisation of the International Association
2. International combination of efforts, by the agency of the association, in the struggle between labour and capital
3. Limitation of the working day
4. Juvenile and children's labour (both sexes)
5. Co-operative labour
6. Trades' unions. Their past, present and future
7. Direct and indirect taxation
8. International credit
9. Polish question
10. Armies
11. Religious question
Report to the General Council of the IWMA on the Right of Inheritance
REPORT OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL ON THE RIGHT OF INHERITANCE
Written by Karl Marx on August 2 and 3, 1869 Endorsed by General Council of IWMA on August 3, 1869
1. The right of inheritance is only of social import insofar as it leaves to the heir the power which the deceased wielded during his lifetime -- viz., the power of transferring to himself, by means of his property, the produce of other people's labor. For instance, land gives the living proprietor the power to transfer to himself, under the name of rent, without any equivalent, the produce of other people's labor. Capital gives him the power to do he same under the name of profit and interest. The property in public funds gives him the power to live without labor upon other people's labor, etc.
The Right of Inheritance
The First International Working Men's Association
THE RIGHT OF INHERITANCE
From the General Council minutes of July 20, 1869, as taken by George Eccarius.
Citizen Marx opened the discussion on the question: The Right of Inheritance.
Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
The First International Working Men's Association
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION
October 21-27, 1864
Printed, along with the "General Rules", as a pamphlet entitled Inaugural Address and Provisional Rules of the International Working Men's Association, London, 1864.
Correction
The First International Working Men's Association
CORRECTION
Written on April 13, 1865
Published in Der weibe Adler No. 48, April 22, 1865
Translation: The General Council of the First International. 1864-66 Moscow, 1962 Transcribed for the Internet by director@marx.org
After the two motions of Messrs. Beales and Leverson, mentioned in No. 30 of your newspaper, had been carried by the Polish meeting in London on March 1, Mr. Peter Fox (an Englishman), on behalf of the International Working Men's Association, proposed
On The Dissolution of the Lassallean Workers Association
The First International Working Men's Association
ON THE DISSOLUTION OF THE LASSALLEAN WORKERS' ASSOCIATION
by FREDERICK ENGELS
Written at the end of September 1868 Published in Demokratisches Wochenblatt, No. 40, October 3, 1868
On Authority
ON AUTHORITY
by FREDERICK ENGELS
1872
A number of Socialists have latterly launched a regular crusade against what they call the principle of authority. It suffices to tell them that this or that act is authoritarian for it to be condemned. This summary mode of procedure is being abused to such an extent that it has become necessary to look into the matter somewhat more closely.
Synopsis of the Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party
The First International Working Men's Association
SYNOPSIS OF ENGELS' PAMPHLET THE PRUSSIAN MILITARY QUESTION AND THE GERMAN WORKERS' PARTY
Written middle of March 1865
Published in the Londoner Anzeiger Translated by Rodney Livingstone
The Prussian Military Question and the German Workers' Party. By Frederick Engels. (Hamburg, Otto Meissner)
We can warmly commend this pamphlet to our readers as it treats the most urgent issues of the day in Germany with great incisiveness, impartiality and expert knowledge. The old organisation of the Prussian army, the aims behind its reorganisation, the origins of the constitutional conflict in Prussia, the conduct of the opposition by the Party of Progress and the simultaneous feuding between the Party of Progress and the Workers' Party -- all this is presented here in a brief, but original and exhaustive account.
