Marx & Engels Collected Works: Volume 23

Volume 23

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Works
October 1871-July 1874


General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International Working Men's Association (Marx)3
Resolution of the General Council Expelling Gustave Durand from the International Working Men's Association (Engels)21
To Enrico Bignami, Editor of La Plebe (Engels)22
Declaration of the General Council on Nechayev's Misuse of the Name of the International Working Men's Association (Marx)23
Resolution of the General Council on the Rules of the French Section of 1871 (Marx)24
On the Progress of the International Working Men's Association in Italy and Spain. Engels' Record of His Report at the General Council Meeting of October 17, 1871 (Engels)28
To the Editors of the Gazzettino Rosa. Covering Letter to the "Declaration of the General Council on Nechayev's Misuse of the Name of the International Working Men's Association (Engels)30
Statement by the General Council Concerning Alexander Baillie Cochrane's Letter (Engels)31
On the Company Swindle in England (Engels)34
Resolution of the General Council on the French Section of 1871 (Marx)37
Giuseppe Garibaldi's Statement and Its Effects on the Working Classes in Italy. Engels' Record of His Report at the General Council Meeting of November 7, 1871 (Engels)43
Working Men's Congress at Rome.-Bebel's Speeches in the Reichstag. Engels' Record of His Report at the General Council Meeting of November 14, 1871 (Engels)46
Declaration (Marx)50
Statement Sent by the General Council to the Editors of the Frankfurter Zeitung und Handelsblatt (Marx)52
To the Federal Council of the Spanish Region in Madrid (Engels)53
To the Editors of Il Proletario Italiano (Engels)54
Credentials for Giuseppe Boriani (Engels)56
The Position of the Danish Members of the International on the Agrarian Question. Engels' Record of His Report at the General Council Meeting of December 5, 1871 (Engels)57
On the Position of the International's Sections in European Countries (Engels)59
Declaration Sent by the General Council to the Editors of Italian Newspapers Concerning Mazzini's Articles about the International (Engels)60
To the Editor of The Eastern Post (Marx)62

1872

The Congress of Sonvillier and the International (Engels)64
To the Editor of The Eastern Post (Marx)71
To the Editor of The Eastern Post (Marx)72
Letter to the Editors of the Gazzettino Rosa (Engels)74
To the Section of Commercial Employees in Barcelona (Engels)76
Declaration of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association (Marx & Engels)77
Fictitious Splits in the International. Private Circular from the General Council of the International Working Men's Association (Marx & Engels)79

I

79

II

84

III

94

IV

102

V

114

VI

116

VII

119
Resolutions on the Split in the United States' Federation Passed by the General Council of the I.W.A. in Its Sittings of 5th and 12th March, 1872 (Marx)124
To the Editor of La Liberté (Marx)127
Resolutions of the Meeting Held to Celebrate the Anniversary of the Paris Commune (Marx)128
To the Spanish Federal Council (Engels)129
The Nationalisation of the Land (Marx)131
To Citizen Delegates of the Regional Spanish Congress Assembled at Saragossa (Engels)137
To the Saragossa Congress (Engels)139
Declaration of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association Concerning Cochrane's Speech in the House of Commons (Marx)140
To the Society of Ferrarese Workers (Engels)146
Letters from London. - I. The English Agricultural Labourers' Strike (Engels)148
On the Police Persecution of the Member of the International Theodore Cuno (Engels)151
To the Society of Ferrarese Workers (Engels)153
Relations Between the Irish Sections and the British Federal Council. Engels' Record of His Report at the General Council Meeting of May 14, 1872 (Engels)154
Declaration of the General Council Concerning the Universal Federalist Council (Marx)157
Stefanoni and the International Again (Marx)160
Reply to Brentano's Article (Marx)164
To the Emancipation of the Proletarian Society in Turin (Engels)168
Announcement of the General Council on the Convocation and the Agenda of the Congress at The Hague (Engels)170
Preface to the 1872 German Edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party (Marx & Engels)174
Resolutions of the Sub-Committee on Mikhail Bakunin and the Alliance (Engels)176
The International in America (Engels)177
To Citizen Vincenzo Spotti, Secretary of the Committee for the Emancipation of the Working Classes in Parma (Engels)184
To the Striking Miners of the Ruhr Valley (Marx)185
The General Council's Reply to the Protest of the Jura Federation Against the Convening of a Congress at The Hague (Marx)188
Reply to Brentano's Second Article (Marx)190
Amendments to the General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International Working Men's Association Adopted by the General Council in the Summer of 1872 (Marx)198
The General Council to All the Members of the International Working Men's Association (Engels)205
To the Spanish Sections of the International Working Men's Association (Marx & Engels)211
To the Editor of The Times (Marx)214
The General Council to the New Madrid Federation (Engels)215
On the Rimini Conference (Engels)216
Address of the General Council to the Italian Sections of the International Working Men's Association Concerning the Rimini Conference (Engels)217
Resolution on the Behaviour of Members of the General Council at the Congress (Marx)218
Report of the General Council to the Fifth Annual Congress of the International Working Men's Association Held at The Hague, from the 2nd to the 7th September 1872 (Marx)219
Report on the Alliance of Socialist Democracy Presented in the Name of the General Council to the Congress at The Hague (Engels)228
Motion for the Procedure of Debate on the General Rules and Administrative Regulations (Engels)239
Proposal on the Transfer of the Seat and on the Composition of the General Council for 1872-1873 (Marx & Engels)240
Resolutions of the General Congress Held at The Hague from the 2nd to the 7th September, 1872 (Marx & Engels)243

I. Resolution Relative to the General Rules

243

II. Resolutions Relating to the Administrative Regulations

244

III. Resolutions Relating to the internationalisation of Trades' Societies

245

IV. Resolutions Relating to the Admission of Sections

246

V. Audit of the Accounts of the General Council

248

VI. Powers Issued by the General Council, and by Federal Councils

248

VII. Resolutions Relating to the Alliance

249

VIII. Residence and Composition of the Next General Council

250

IX. Place of Meeting of Next Congress

253

X. Committee to Draw up the Minutes

253
On the Hague Congress. A Correspondent's Report of a Speech Made at a Meeting in Amsterdam on September 8, 1872 (Marx)254
To the Editor of Le Corsaire (Marx)257
To the Editor of The Daily News (Marx)259
On the Hague Congress of the International (Engels)260
The Congress at The Hague (Letter to Enrico Bignami) (Engels)271
Imperative Mandates at the Hague Congress (Engels)277
Letters from London. - II. More about the Hague Congress (Engels)283
To the British Federal Council, International Working Men's Association Concerning Portuguese Strikes (Engels)285
To the Editors of Der Volksstaat (Marx)286
Report to the General Council of the I.W.M.A. upon the Situation in Spain, Portugal and Italy (Engels)288
To the Workers' and Peasants' Association of Lower Lombardy (Section of the International) in Lodi (Engels)293
Letters from London. - III. Meeting in Hyde Park (Engels)294
Mandate to E. Larroque (Engels)297
Letters from London. - IV. Meeting in Hyde Park.-Situation in Spain (Engels)298
To the Editor of The International Herald (Marx & Engels)301
The Manchester Foreign Section to All Sections and Members of the British Federation (Engels)304
Address of the British Federal Council to the Sections, Branches, Affiliated Societies and Members of the International Working Men's Association (Marx)309
The Housing Question (Engels)317

Part I. How Proudhon Solves the Housing Question

317

Part II. How the Bourgeoisie Solves the Housing Question

337

Part III. Supplement on Proudhon and the Housing Question

368
Political Indifferentism (Marx)392
To the Editor of The Times (Marx)398
The "Crisis" in Prussia (Engels)400
Reply to the Second Circular of the Self-styled Majority of the British Federal Council (Marx)406
News on the Activities of the International on the Continent (Engels)409

I

409

II

411

III

411

IV

412
Notes for the General Council (Engels)414
The Republic in Spain (Engels)417
On Authority (Engels)422
News on the International Labour Movement (Engels)426

I

426

II

427

III

429

IV

431

V

433

VI

434
To the General Council of the International Working Men's Association (Engels)437
On the Articles in the Neuer Social-Demokrat. (From a Letter to A. Hepner) (Engels)439
The International and the Neuer (Engels)442
Communication from the Continent (Engels)446
To the General Council of the International Working Men's Association (Engels)447
From the International (Engels)448
Note on a Review of E. Renan's L'anti-christ (Engels)452
Comment upon Giuseppe Garibaldi's Letter to Prospero Crescio (Engels)453
The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association. Report and Documents Published by Decision of the Hague Congress of the International (Marx & Engels)454

I. Introduction

454

II. The Secret Alliance

459

III. The Alliance in Switzerland

470

IV. The Alliance in Spain

486

V. The Alliance in Italy

497

VI. The Alliance in France

504

VII. The Alliance After the Hague Congress

508

VIII. The Alliance in Russia

515

1. The Nechayev Trial

515

2. The Revolutionary Catechism

544

3. Bakunin's Appeal to the Officers of the Russian Army

549

IX. Conclusion

554

X. Appendix

556

1. Bakunin's Hegira

556

2. Bakunin's Pan-Slav Manifesto

558

3. Bakunin and the Tsar

561

XI. Documents

567
The Bakuninists at Work. An Account of the Spanish Revolt in the Summer of 1873 (Engels)581

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581

II

584

III

590

IV

595
Varia on Germany (Engels)599

I. Introduction 1500-1789

599

1789-1815

603

Varia on Germany 1789-1873

604
The English Elections (Engels)611
The Imperial Military Law (Engels)617

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617

II

619
Supplement to the Preface of 1870 for The Peasant War in Germany (Engels)626

 

From the Preparatory Materials

Notes on the Condition of the Refugees from the Commune (Marx)635
American Split (Marx)636
Extracts from the Minutes of the General Council for June 1870-April 1872 (Marx)644

 

Notes and Indexes

Notes 655
Name Index726
Index of Quoted and Mentioned Literature761
Index of Periodicals787
Subject Index796

 

Illustrations

Title page of the English edition of the General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International Working Men's Association5
Title page of Marx's and Engels' pamphlet Fictitious Splits in the International81
Page of Marx's manuscript The Nationalisation of the Land133
Page of Engels' manuscript with the announcement of the General Council on the convocation of the I.W.M.A.'s Congress at The Hague171
Pages of the French edition of the General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the First International with corrections by Marx199
Facsimile of Marx's manuscript with a proposal to transfer the seat of the General Council to New York241
Page of the manuscript of the Hague Congress' resolutions251
Title page of the separate reprint of Engels' The Housing Question Part 1, with the author's dedication to Laura Lafargue315
Title page of Marx and Engels' pamphlet The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association455
Page of the manuscript Varia on Germany605
Mandate issued to Marx by New York Section No. 1 for him to take part in the Hague Congress647-48
Mandate issued to Engels by the Breslau Section for him to take part in the Hague Congress649-50
Mandate issued to Engels by New York Section No. 6 for him to take part in the Hague Congress651-52