As some of the resolutions passed at the first Congress may be 
considered as part of the platform of principles of the Internation- 
al Working Men’s Association, and the reports of that Congress 
have had but a limited circulation, the General Council deems it 
advisable to republish them with the issue of the resolutions 
passed at the last Congress. 

Amongst the various subjects that came under the consideration 
of the first—the Geneva Congress—the following are the most 
important.” 

Written at the end of October-Novem- Reproduced from the newspaper 
ber 3, 1868 

Adopted by the General Council on 
November 3, 1868 

paper, No. 371, November 21, 1868 

32 

Karl Marx 

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