The SRs must be given a refusal. "We cannot advise a merger." Did they provide an address for a reply? (Be sure to keep a copy.)

I am writing to Alexander, but of course not in the way you "modified" our agreement, but as it actually was: (1) the old contract is annulled; (2) the editorial board of the CO edits, agreeing from book to book with the publishers; (3) publication in Berne*.

* This concerns the conditions for continuing publication of the journal "Communist." —Ed.