Meeting Held to Celebrate the First Anniversary of the Paris Commune

Commemorative meeting held by the General Council of the First International on March 18, 1872 at the residence of the Association of Refugees of the Paris Commune in London. At its meeting on February 20, 1872, the General Council of the First International adopted a resolution to hold a mass meeting in London to commemorate the first anniversary of the Paris Commune, and Marx was designated as one of the speakers for the meeting. On March 18, 1872, the members of the International and former members of the Commune, as well as the workers who had come to the meeting, gathered at the residence of the Association of Refugees of the Paris Commune and held a solemn meeting to commemorate the first anniversary of the Paris Commune Revolution. The meeting adopted the Resolutions on the Meeting Held to Celebrate the Anniversary of the Paris Commune drafted by Marx on March 13–18, 1872, which praised the March 18 Paris Commune Revolution as “the dawn of the great social revolution which will for ever free the human race from class rule. The resolution pointed out that the union of the European bourgeoisie against the International and the Commune could not save the capitalist system from ruin, but rather proved the strength of the proletariat even more.