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Title: Marx to John Hales, [London,] 14 October 1871
Description: Marx sends Hales, for the London daily papers, the declaration of the General Council that Nechayev has never been a member or agent of the International.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1871-10-14
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/originales/1871-10-14%20Marx%20to%20John%20Hales
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*Karl Marx to John Hales in London; [London,] 14 October 1871. Written in English. Text after the manuscript, [MEGAdigital](https://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/detail.xql?id=M5397680) (MEGA², Section III, letters of 1871, no. 597), 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). The letter is followed, on the same page, by the text of the declaration on Nechayev, dated at the end. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/cartas/1871-10-14%20Marx%20a%20John%20Hales)*

Dear Hales,

You must copy the following Resolution and send it to the daily London papers (the *English* ones; Serraillier sends it to the French papers.)

Yours fraternally

Karl Marx.

International Workingmen’s Association.

The Conference of the Delegates of the International Working Men’s Association, assembled at London from the 17th to the 23d September 1871, has charges the General Council to declare publicly:

That *Netschajeff* has never been a member or an agent of the International Workingmen’s Association;

that his assertions to have founded a branch at Brussels and to have been sent by a Brussels branch on a mission to Geneva, are false;

that the above said Netschajeff has fraudulently used the name of the International Workingmen’s Association in order to make dupes and victims in Russia.

By order of the General Council etc

14. October, 1871.