On the practical means by which to enable the International 
Working Men’s Association to fulfil its function of a common 
centre of action for the working classes, female and male, in their 
struggle tending to their complete emancipation from the domina- 
tion of capital. 


II 


That our Congress programme be published in the Courrier 
Frangais, that no branch has a right to put forth a programme of 
its own, that the Council alone is empowered to draw up the 
Congress programme, and that the General Secretary be in- 
structed to send the Council programme to the Courrier and 
communicate the foregoing resolution to the Paris Committee. 


Adopted by the General Council on Reproduced from the Minute 
July 9 and 23, 1867 Book of the General Council 


Resolution I first published as a leaflet 
and in The Working Man, No. 16, The 
Bee-Hive Newspaper, No. 300, and The 
Commonwealth, No. 75, July 13, 1867 


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Karl Marx