The International Workingmen’s Association, the first international revolutionary joint organization of the proletariat. It was founded on September 28, 1864, at a workmen’s meeting held at St. Martin’s Hall in London, England, by delegates of workers from England, France, Germany, Italy and Poland. The conference adopted the resolution establishing the International Workingmen’s Association and elected a Provisional Council. Marx, one of the founders and the actual leader, attended the inaugural conference and was elected to the presidium, and elected a member of the Provisional Council and corresponding secretary for Germany. Commissioned by the conference, Marx drafted the two documents, the Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association and the Provisional Rules of the International Working Men’s Association. In September 1866, the Geneva Congress discussed and passed the Provisional Rules of the International Working Men’s Association, called the Rules of the International Working Men’s Association. In September 1871, the London Conference of Delegates amended it to be called the General Rules of the International Working Men’s Association, and it was passed at the meeting of the Central Council on November 1, 1864…
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