In your no. 39
has
is to be found
a declaration of Turin workers, where one reads:
We declare to the public
[...]
that the decision
This assertion obliges the G. C. to declare That never the G. C.
of the C.
Great Council of London to postpone
socialism to politics was communicated to us by the editorial staff of the
Proletario
, as soon as issued and that this decision did not assume
official character because again withdrawn by the Great Council inasmuch as
many European Associations would have rejected it en masse as would have been done
also by us.
This assertion obliges the General Council to declare:
1st – That
[...]
it has never taken any decision
to postpone socialism to politics,
2nd – That it cannot therefore have withdrawn any such decision,
3rd – That no European or American Association could have
rejected any such decision, nor has any such rejected any other decision
of the General Council.
The position of the General Council with regard to the political action of the
proletariat is
~~distantes (?)~~
very clearly defined.
It is defined
1st – By the
[...]
general
[...]
Statutes
which
state in the fourth
Recital
: That the economic emancipation
of the working class is the great end
to which
every
political movement must be subordinated as a means
.
/ 2nd – By the text of the
Inaugural Address of the Association (1864)
,
official and obligatory commentary on the Statutes, which says: “The lords
of the land and the lords of capital will always use their
political privileges to defend and perpetuate their economic
monopolies. Far from furthering the emancipation of labour,
they will continue to place every possible obstacle in its way. The conquest of
political power has therefore become the first duty of the working
class
[”]. /
3rd – By the resolution of the
Lausanne Congress (1867)
to this effect:
the social emancipation of the workers is inseparable from their
political emancipation.
4th – By resolution IX of the
London Conference (September 1871),
which
[...]
to the n
//
in harmony with

| that which precedes reminds the members of the Int. that in the
militant state of the working class, its economic movement and its
political action are indissolubly united.
The
position
conduct
thus
prescribed to the Council, it has always followed and will follow
[...]
in the
future.
It therefore declares to be false and calumnious the
above-mentioned
communication made, by whom it is not known, to the editorial staff of the
Proletario
.
On behalf and
By order and in name of the G. C.
The Secr. for Italy
F. E.
P. S. I have this moment received the
Révolution Sociale
of
from Geneva
from which
which says
that a small group of the Jura, has
protested
rejected the decisions,
not
of the London Conference. No official communication thereof has been made
to the G. C. As soon as it has received it, it will take the
[...]
measures
necessary.