Would you be so kind as to insert the attached Declaration in the 
next number of the Populaire. The point is not to let the Communist 
Party be made responsible for an enterprise and conduct which have 
already reawakened in a part of the German nation the old national 
and reactionary prejudices against the French people. The Alliance 
of German Workers,’ an association of various workers’ societies in 
all European countries, which counts among its members 
Mr. Harney and Mr. Jones, the English Chartist leaders, is composed 
entirely of communists and openly professes itself communist. The 
so-called German Democratic Society in Paris is essentially 
anti-communist insofar as it claims not to recognise the antagonism 
and struggle between the proletarian and bourgeois classes. It is, 
therefore, a question of making a protest and a declaration in the 
interests of the Communist Party. And it is this which makes us 
anticipate your compliance. (This note is strictly confidential.) 

Fraternal greetings, 

Frederick Engels 
Karl Marx 

The undersigned committee considers it its duty to inform the 
various branches of the Alliance of German Workers in the different 
European countries that it has in no way participated in the 
proceedings, posters and proclamations to appeal to the French 

* This refers to the Communist League.— Ed. 

Letter to Etienne Cabet, Editor of the Populaire 9 

citizens for clothes, arms and money. The German Workers’ 
Club* is the only one in Paris which maintains relations with the 
Alliance, and it has nothing in common with the society in Paris, 
called the Society of German Democrats, whose leaders are Herr 
Herwegh and Herr von Bornstedt. 

The Central Committee of the Alliance of German Workers 

(signed) K. Marx, K. Schapper, H. Bauer, 
F, Engels, J. Moll, W. Wolff 

Science and Society, 1940, Vol. IV, No. 2 Translated from the French 

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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels