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Title: Letter from the General Council to the Editors of the Spectator and the Examiner (1871)
Description: Short letter of the General Council of the International, drafted by Engels, denouncing as fabrications of the Versailles police the alleged manifestoes of the Paris International that filled the English press.
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1871-06-21
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1871%20Letter%20from%20the%20General%20Council%20to%20the%20Editors%20of%20the%20Spectator%20and%20the%20Examiner
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*Written by Friedrich Engels about June 21, 1871, on behalf of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association, as a letter to the editor of the* Spectator *(or of the* Examiner*). Attributed to Friedrich Engels by MEGA² (I/22). Text from* The General Council of the First International, 1870-1871. Minutes*, Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], p. 423, which prints the manuscript. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1871%20Carta%20del%20Consejo%20General%20a%20las%20redacciones%20de%20The%20Spectator%20y%20The%20Examiner).*

*To the Editor of the Spectator (resp. Examiner)*

Sir,

You will much oblige the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association by giving publication to the fact that all the pretended manifestoes, and other publications of the “International” of Paris, with which the English Press is now teeming (and which all of them were at first published by the notorious *Paris-Journal*), are without one exception pure fabrication of the Versailles police.

I am ....