1) that the different International sections of the Continent and the United States have been advised by the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association to subscribe to the Bee-Hive newspaper as the official organ of the General Council and the representative in the English press of the Working-Class movement’;

2) that the Bee-Hive has not only erased from the official reports of the General Council such resolutions as might displease its patrons, but, by way of suppression, has systematically misrepresented the tenor of consecutive sittings of the General Council; |

3) that mainly since its recent change of proprietorship,’ while still pretending to be the exclusive organ of the working class, the Bee-Hive has, in reality, become the organ of a capitalist fraction who want to keep the proletarian movement in their leading strings and use it as a means for the furtherance of their own class and party purposes;

The General Council of the International Working Men’s Association, in its sitting of the 26th of April 1870, has unanimously resolved to sever its connection with the Bee-Hive, and to publicly announce this resolution to its different sections in England, on the Continent, and in the United States.

Drawn up in early May 1870 Reproduced from Marx’s manu- script pasted into the Minute Book

Adopted by the General Council aft the General Counel

on May 17, 1870