We have received a resolution, dated Rimini, August 6, from 
the Conference of what claims to be the Italian Federation of the 
International Working Men’s Association, breaking all solidarity 
with the General Council in London and calling on its own 
authority an anti-authoritarian Congress * in Neuchatel, Switzerland, 
to which all sections of the same opinion are invited to send 
delegates, instead of to The Hague, where the regular Congress of 
the International is to be held. 

It should be pointed out that of the 21 sections whose delegates 
have signed this resolution, there is only one (Naples) which 
belongs to the International. None of the other 20 sections has 
ever fulfilled any of the conditions prescribed by our General 
Rules and Regulations for the admission of new sections. An 
Italian federation of the Working Men’s Association therefore 
does not exist. Those who want to found it, form their own 
international outside the great Working Men’s Association. 

It will be the task of the Hague Congress to deliberate on these 
usurpations. 


In the name and by order of the General Council 
Secretary for Italy, 
Frederick Engels”