General Council of the International Workingmen's Association

The General Council of the International Workingmen's Association was formed on October 5 1864 following the St. Martin's Hall Meeting held the previous week. The Universal League for the Material Elevation of the Industrious Classes provided a base for them to operate from at 18 Greek Street.[1]

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Congresses
  • Geneva Congress (1866)
  • Lausanne Congress (1867)
  • Brussels Congress (1868)
  • Basel Congress (1869)
  • Hague Congress (1872)
Office holders
  • President
  • 1864: George Odger
  • 1867: Position reappointed at each meeting
  • General Secretary
  • 1864: Randal Cremer
  • 1866: Peter Fox
  • 1866: Randal Cremer
  • 1867: Johann Eccarius
  • 1871: John Hales
  • 1872: Friedrich Sorge
  • 1874: Carl Speyer
  • Treasurer
  • 1864: George William Wheeler
  • 1865: William Dell
  • 1865: George William Wheeler
  • 1867: Robert Shaw
  • 1868: Cornell William Frederick Stepney
  • 1870: John Weston
  • 1871: Albert Filix Thiesz
  • 1871: Hermann Jung
Affiliated organisationsActivists
  • Karl Marx
  • Gabriel Mollin
  • Mikhail Bakunin
Pan-European political parties

References

  1. ^ Leventhal F. M. (1971) Respectable Radical London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson


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