For your further information about the Neuer’s notorious article," 
we wish to draw your attention—and, in part, not for the 
first time—to the following: a) to the absurdity of maintaining 
that Bakunin is against conspiracies, when he has instigated a 
general conspiracy—the Alliance—within the International, ad- 
mittedly not against the government, but against the International; 
b) the notion that the International in France could lead any kind 
of existence other than a “secret” one after the Dufaure Law*”; 
that, however, a secret propaganda society and a conspiracy are 
two different things; c) the fact that the Hague Congress came out 
so energetically against the Blanquists, who wanted to make the 
International a vehicle for conspiracies, that they withdrew from 
the International and openly declared that they were against it 
because it lacked “revolutionary energy”; d) the fact that 
Heddeghem (Walter), the tall quiet man in The Hague with red 
hair—accompanied by a small woman dressed in mourning with a 
Mary Magdalene face, allegedly his ‘“wife’—who has now been 
unmasked as an old police agent, was only put forward to the old 
General Council by Serraillier for admittance, along with his 
branch, after he [Heddeghem] had referred to the Blanquist 
Ranvier, a member of the General Council, and was acknowledged 
by the latter as thoroughly reliable; e) the fact that both Heddeghem 
and Dentraygues had the mandates of their sections” as laid down 
in the Rules, and thus had to be admitted to the Congress, so long 

as no charge was brought against them, which did not occur to 
any member of the minority; f) the fact that the Neuer cannot be 
considered anything but a police organ as it reiterates the 
catchphrase, disseminated by police agents and Bonapartists such 
as Vogt & Co., that Marx is attempting to act as an “international 
leader of conspirators” * and has already had “a dozen Communist 
trials”, when the very actions of the Hague Congress, with whose 
majority Marx is identified, against the Blanquists prove the 
opposite, and the police lies about the one Communist trial of 
1852 were exposed long ago by Marx’s Revelations Concerning the 
Communist Trial in Cologne; g) the fact that if anyone from the 
Neuer Social-Demokrat is now, for once, sentenced to imprison- 
ment, we know what we are to think, since the Neuer has itself 
drawn attention to the police manoeuvre of having police agents 
sentenced along with the others, but allowing them to lead a more 
comfortable life in prison. ‘May the workers always keep their eyes 
open!” 

Incidentally, Dentraygues was no spy, but a down-at-heel 
character, who only became an informer in cachot“ and then soon 
became an out-and-out creature of the police. On the other hand, 
Heddeghem was already a mouchard’ under Bonaparte; we have 
only the Blanquists to thank for him. The “grand old freedom 
fighter” Bakunin, however, has always had mouchards in his 
ranks—for example, Albert Richard, who has been his right-hand- 
man for France since 1868, since the foundation of the Alliance. 
And as the Jurassians claim that they also have secret sections in 
France (the trials prove the converse any where then is the 
difference affected by the Neuer? 

As far as the article in No. 45‘ is concerned, a few things still 
need to be said about the claims made in it. Opposition to the 
Hague Congress has been voiced by: 1. The so-called Italian 
Federation, which has never belonged to the International because 
it refuses to recognise the General Rules, and for this reason can 

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never belong to the International until it falls in line.-—On the 
other hand, a number of genuine Italian sections have recognised 
them, and are in regular contact with the General Council. 2. The 
Jura Federation, 150 men, as against 4,000-5,000 in French 
Switzerland alone; it has, therefore, been suspended. 3. The 
Belgians. 4. Some of the Spaniards, while others have set up the 
Federal Council in Valencia, which is in regular contact with the 
General Council in New York. 5. In England all of ten men, who 
have not got a single real section behind them, while the English 
Federal Council, supported by numerous sections, several of which 
are 500 or more strong, and which are increasing week by week, 
makes recognition of the Hague resolutions a basic condition for 
admission. 6. The fact that, in France, “insofar as any organisation 
survives there”, it has remained loyal to The Hague and the 
General Council is demonstrated precisely by the trials that are the 
pretext for the article in No. 49. The “refugees of the Commune”, 
neither as such nor in their “majority”, have ever had occasion for 
“turning energetically against, etc.” since the faction never existed. 
The Blanquists, all five of them, including four members of the 
Commune,’ have withdrawn because the International would not 
allow itself to become the tool of their conspiracy. Otherwise 
nothing whatsoever has occurred to provide the remotest pretext 
for this lie. 

May 7, 1873 Published in English for the first