That the Inaugural Address of the International Working Men's Association (1864) states: That the Congress of Lausanne (1867) has passed this resolution: That the declaration of the General Council relative to the pretended plot of the French Internationalists on the eve of the plebiscite (1870) says: That false translations of the original Statutes have given rise to various interpretations which were mischievous to the development and action of the International Working Men's Association; In presence of an unbridled reaction which violently crushes every effort at emancipation on the part of the working men, and pretends to maintain by brute force the distinction of classes and the political domination of the propertied classes resulting from it; Considering, that against this collective power of the propertied classes the working class cannot act, as a class, except by constituting itself into a political party, distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed by the propertied classes; That this constitution of the working class into a political party is indispensable in order to ensure the triumph of the social revolution and its ultimate end the abolition of classes; That the combination of forces which the working class has already effected by its economical struggles ought at the same time to serve as a lever for its struggles against the political power of landlords and capitalists The Conference recalls to the members of the International: That in the militant state of the working class, its economical movement and its political action are indissolubly united.
Resolution of the London Conference on Political Action