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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.

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