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Resolution of the London Conference on Working Class Political Action
RESOLUTION OF THE LONDON CONFERENCE ON WORKING-CLASS POLITICAL ACTION
as adopted by the London Conference of the International, September, 1871
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Resolution on the Establishment of Working Class Parties
The First International Working Men's Association
RESOLUTION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WORKING-CLASS PARTIES
Adopted by the Hague Congress of the International as Article 7 of the General Statutes September 1872
Drafted in July 1872
Printed in French and English
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
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.
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.
Program for the 5th Conferance
The First International Working Men's Association
PROGRAM FOR THE 5TH CONGRESS
Written July 14, 1870
Printed in La Liberte, July 31, 1870 Der Volkstaat, August 13, 1870
Online version from the La Liberte article
1. On the need to abolish the public debt. Discussion of the right to compensation.
2. Relationship between political action and the social movement of the working class.
Political Action and the Working Class
The First International Working Men's Association
POLITICAL ACTION AND THE WORKING CLASS
These are notes taken (in French originally, but translated into English) from two speeches Marx made at the London Conference; Protocols of the Sessions of September 20, 21, 1871.
Report of the General Council to the Fourth Annual Conferance of the International Working Mens Association
The First International Working Men's Association REPORT OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL TO THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION
First published in English pamphlet, Report Of the Fourth Annual Congress Of the International Working Men's Association, held at Basle, in Switzerland, London [1869], and in German pamphlet in Basle in September 1869
The Working Class and Organisation
The Working Class & Organisation (A)
by Cornelius Castoriadis, 1959
The Labor Party Illusion
The Labor Party Illusion
By Sam Dolgoff ("Sam Weiner"), c. 1971
Originally written in the United States some 25 years ago, this essay was as relevant then as it is today. At the time, Sam Dolgoff went by the pseudonym "Sam Weiner" in his writings.
