1. Considering the resolution of the Basel Congress fixing the 
seat of the next Congress at Paris, also the resolution of the Gen- 
eral Council dated July 12th, 1870, by which, it being then impos- 
sible to hold a Congress at Paris, and conformably with Art. 4 of 
the General Rules, the Congress was convoked to meet at Mayence. 

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 Mayence. 

Conformably with Art. 4 of the General Rules” which confers 
upon the General Council the rights 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, at The Hague, Holland. 

2. Considering that the questions contained in the programme 
of the Congress which was to be held at Mayence 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. 


@ The manuscript has “prosecutions”.— Ed. 

b See this volume, p. 4.— Ed. 

¢ Cf. K. Marx, “Programme for the Mainz Congress of the Interna- 
tional” .— Ed. 


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Page of Engels’ manuscript with the announcement of the General Council 
on the convocation of the I.W.M.A.’s Congress at The Hague 


Announcement on Convocation and Agenda of Congress at The Hague 173 


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 organization: 

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 questions to 
be discussed by the Congress of The Hague, the revision of the 
General Rules and Regulations.