Resolution of the General Council
of the International Working Men’s Association

concerning the London Newspaper “The Bee-Hive”

Der Volksstaat.
No. 38, 11 May 1870

Resolution of the General Council of the International
Working Men’s Association concerning the “Bee-Hive”.

Considering,

1) that the International sections on the Continent and in the United States of North America were requested by the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association to subscribe to the “Bee-Hive” as the official organ of the General Council and the representative of the labour movement in the English press;

2) that the “Bee-Hive” has not only excised from the official reports of the General Council resolutions objectionable to its patrons, but has also systematically falsified the sense and content of a number of meetings of the General Council by means of surreptitious omissions;

3) that the “Bee-Hive”, particularly since the recent change in its proprietors, continues to pose as the exclusive organ of the English working class, while in fact it has been transformed into the organ of a fraction of capitalists that seeks to direct the proletarian movement and to exploit it in its own class and party interest;

the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association, at its meeting of 26 April 1870, unanimously resolved to break off all connection with the “Bee-Hive” and to make this its resolution publicly known to the sections in England, in the United States and on the Continent.

By order of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association:
Karl Marx, Secretary of the General Council for Germany.
London, 3 May 1870.