Karl Marx to Hermann Jung in London; [London,] 18 January 1871 (dated by Marx 17 January). Written in English. Text after the manuscript, MEGAdigital (MEGA², Section III, letters of 1871, no. 18), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY-SA 4.0, without the editors’ apparatus. Underlining in italics; deletions omitted; editorial additions in square brackets; […] illegible word(s). Traducción al español

  1. Jan. 1871.

Dear Jung,

I have in yesterday’s sitting of the General Council fully exposed the past history of Jules Favre. I send you a few main points relating to his counterrevolutionary deeds.

The Council has also yesterday passed a Resolution instructing you to write to the Editors of the “Felleisen” – as the organ of the German Arbeiterbildungsvereine in Switzerland – in the following sense:

  1. What is the position of those “Vereine” and their organ, the “Felleisen”, to the International Workingmen’s Association?

  2. Till now they have never paid any contribution to the General Council.

  3. In their organ— the Felleisen—the annexation to Germany of Elsace and Lorraine is defended in flagrant contradiction to the circulars of the General Council of which not even an extract has ever been published by them.

  4. If they persist in the non-fulfilment of their duties (point 2) and in their opposition to the policy of the General Council (point 3), which is in consonance with the Statutes of the International, the General Council, using the right, deferred to him by the Basel Congress, will provisionally–that is to say until the meeting of next General Congress–exclude them from the „International“.

Yours fraternally

Karl Marx.

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/ Ladendorf is no longer the Editor of the “Felleisen”. You must address your letter: “Redaction des Felleisen”. Deutscher Arbeiterbildungsverein, in Gassen, Zürich”./

Jules Favre.

The infamous decree of 27th June 1848, by which many thousand Parisian workmen made prisoners during the June Insurrection, were, without even the formality of any judicial inquiry, to be transported to Algeria etc, was drawn up [by] Jules Favre. Afterwards, he constantly refused to join the motions of amnisty, brought forward from time to time by the Republican party of the Constituent Assembly.

Jules Favre was one of the most notorious tools of the reign of terror, inflicted on the French working class by General Cavaignac after the Insurrection of June. He supported all the shameless laws then passed with a view to suppress the right of reunion, coalition, and the freedom of the press.

On the 16th April 1849, Jules Favre, as the spokesman of the counterrevolutionary majority of a parliamentary committee, proposed to grant Louis Bonaparte the 1,200,000 francs he demanded for the expedition against the Roman Republic.

Mr. H. Jung

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