[DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL ON THE “FRENCH FEDERAL SECTION IN LONDON’)]

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

Adopted by the General Council on Reproduced from Marx’s manuMay 10, 1870 script pasted into the Minute Book

4 The words “in London or any Branch” and “on the continent” were inserted by Eccarius when the resolution was being discussed by the General Council.— Ed.

Karl Marx