Moved in Marx’s name by Hermann Jung at the meeting of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on May 10, 1870, and ordered to be sent to all the papers; the text, in Marx’s hand, is pasted into the Minute Book, with the words “in London or any Branch” and “on the continent” added by Eccarius. Attributed to Karl Marx by MEW (vol. 16). Text from The General Council of the First International, 1868-1870. Minutes, Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], p. 236, which prints the Minute Book. Traducción al español.
Considering,
that addresses, resolutions and manifestoes emanating from a French society in London which styles itself: “International Working Men’s Association, French Federal Branch”, have recently been published by continental papers and ascribed to the “International Working Men’s Association”;
that the “International Working Men’s Association” is at present undergoing severe persecutions on the part of the Austrian and French Governments which eagerly catch at the most flimsy pretexts for justifying such persecutions;
that under these circumstances the General Council would incur a serious responsibility in allowing any society not belonging to the “International” to use and act in its name;
the General Council hereby declares that the so-called London French Federal Branch has since two years ceased to form part of the “International” and to have any connection whatever with the General Council in London or any Branch of that Association on the continent.
London, 10 May 1870