In your leader on the “International” (of the 19 June)* you say: 

“Of the two programmes (that of London and that of Paris) recently issued in 
favour of the Commune? that of the Paris branch has the merit of being the more 
honest and the more outspoken.” 

Unfortunately, the “Paris” manifesto has been issued not by our 
Paris Branch, but by the “Versailles Police”’. 
You say: 

“The London Internationalists insist no less earnestly than their Paris brethren 
that ‘the old society must perish and ought to perish’. They speak of the burning of 
the public buildings and the shooting of the hostages as ‘a gigantic effort to bring 
society down’—which, although unsuccessful once, will be persevered in until it 
succeeds.” 

Now the General Council of this Association summons you to 
quote the exact pages and lines of our Address where the words 
attributed by you to us do occur! 

Written on June 19 or 20, 1871 Reproduced from the rough manu- 

: ; ‘ script 

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

a “If there are any in England...”, The Standard, No. 14627, June 19, 
1871.— Ed. 

b The reference is to the General Council’s Address The Civil War in France, 
written by Marx (pp. 307-59), and the Manifesto, supposedly issued by the 
International, published in the Paris-Journal, No. 157, June 17, 1871 under the 
heading “Le Comité central de VInternationale”.— Ed. 

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Frederick Engels