You will much oblige the General Council of the International 
Working Men’s Association by giving publicity to the fact that all 
the pretended Manifestoes and other publications of the “Interna- 
tionals” of Paris, with which the English Press is now teeming (and 
which all of them were first published by the notorious Paris- 
Journal) are without one exception pure fabrications of the 
Versailles Police. 

I am etc. 

Written on June 20 or 21, 1871 Reproduced from the rough manu- 

F . : script 

Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XIII, 
Part II, 1940 

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Karl Marx