{[London,} 6 November 1871 

Dear Friend, 

I enclose a copy of the French translation of the Conference 
resolutions.* They have also appeared in English, and the German 
translation will be sent off to the Volksstaat tomorrow. 

The single English edition of the Rules and Regulations of the 
International” will come out tomorrow. We shall probably publish 
a German edition in Leipzig and a French one in Geneva. 
According to the latest Conference resolutions every member must 
possess a copy of the Rules. I shall send you the stamps as soon as 
they are available. 

With regard to Berlin, my view is that public meetings ‘in 
general’ should nat be held until more propaganda has been made 
on the spot. In the meantime, however, every situation with 
broader implications and of public interest should be exploited 
both for meetings and for printed manifestoes.** 

The next opportune occasion will be the scandalous trial of the 
members of the ex-committee of the Social-Democratic Party in 
Brunswick, where the International figures as the central feature 
of the indictment.**> However, it will be as well to bide one’s time 
until the public sessions, which will focus the attention of Germany 
on Brunswick. 

In the same way, the proposed laws concerning the Internation- 
al which the government intends to lay before the German 
Reichstag will provide a favourable opportunity. It is to be hoped 
that the German workers will come out as energetically as the 
Spanish workers did against similar government interventions. 

I made one mistake in my last letter.“ Bebel had sent me one 
detailed report in 1870, at the time when we had settled on Mainz 
as the venue for the Congress (shortly before the outbreak of the 
war). 

a K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘Resolutions of the Conference of Delegates of the 
International Working Men’s Association Assembled at London from 17th to 23rd 
September 1871’. - > K. Marx, General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the 
International Working Men’s Association. - © See this volume, p. 221. 

It is not just my duty as corresponding secretary for Germany, it 
is also a great pleasure for me to be in constant communication 
with our other friends in Berlin through yourself and Kwas- 
niewski. 

Salut et fraternité. 

Karl Marx