33, Rathbone Place,
London, August 23, 1872
We have received a resolution dated “Rimini, August 6”
from the conference of an Italian Federation supposedly
belonging to the International Working Men’s Association,
breaking all solidarity with the General Council in London
and on its own initiative calling an*  anti-authoritarian congress at Neuchatel in Switzerland, to which all sections of
like opinion are invited to send their delegates, instead of
to The Hague where the regular congress of the International is to be held.
It should be noted that of the 21 sections whose delegates
have signed this resolution, only one (the Neapolitan)
belongs to the International. None of the remaining 20
sections have ever fulfilled a single one of the conditions
prescribed by our General Rules and Regulations for the
admission of new sections. Consequently, there does not
exist an Italian Federation of the International Working
Men’s Association. Those who claim to form it, are forming
an International of their own outside the great Working
Men’s Association.

It will be for the Congress at The Hague to pass a resolution on such usurpations.
In the name and by order of the General Council
Secretary for Italy,
FREDERICK  ENGELS
September 29, 1872