motion denied
27th September 2014, 22:13
"The immediate motive for the foundation of the International Working Men's Association was the latest Polish insurrection. The London workers sent a deputation to Lord Palmerston with an appeal in which they called on him to intervene on behalf of Poland. At the same time, they issued an address to the workmen of Paris, calling on them to take joint action. The Parisians responded by sending delegates to London. To welcome them, a public meeting gathered at St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre, on September 28, 1864, at which Britons, Germans, Frenchmen, Poles and Italians were represented in large numbers. [...] Apart from the politicla purpose for what the meeting was called, it also raised the subject of general social conditions. It revealed that workingmen of all nations had the same grievances, that they were subject to the same basic evils in all countries." (M&E, Collected Works v.21, p. 322)
Recognizing that the enslavement of labour by capital is not a national, but a social problem and that the proletariat should not only feel as a class, but act as a class, the International Workingmen's Association was founded.
MIA index (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/iwma/index.htm).
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/iwma/i01.gif
The notice of meeting in 5th October of the same year (first meeting of the of the Committee). Because the thread looked dead without a picture.
Proletarians of all countries, unite.
Recognizing that the enslavement of labour by capital is not a national, but a social problem and that the proletariat should not only feel as a class, but act as a class, the International Workingmen's Association was founded.
MIA index (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/iwma/index.htm).
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/iwma/i01.gif
The notice of meeting in 5th October of the same year (first meeting of the of the Committee). Because the thread looked dead without a picture.
Proletarians of all countries, unite.