The Bakuninists have now finally placed themselves outside the 
International. A conference (ostensibly of the International, in 
reality of the Italian Bakuninists) has been held in Rimini. Of the 21 
sections represented, only one, that from Naples, really belonged to 
the International. The other 20, in order not to endanger their 
“autonomy”, had deliberately neglected to take all the measures on 
which the Administrative Regulations of the International make 
admission conditional; they had neither written to the General 
Council requesting admission, nor sent their subscriptions. And 
these 21 “International” sections decided unanimously in Rimini on 
August 6: 


“The Conference solemnly declares to all workers of the world that the Italian 
Federation of the International Working Men’s Association severs all solidarity with 
the General Council in London, proclaiming instead, all the louder, its economic 
solidarity with all workers, and urges all sections that do not share the authoritarian 
principles of the General Council to send their representatives on September 2, 
1872 not to The Hague, but to Neuchatel in Switzerland in order to open the general 
anti-authoritarian Congress there on the same day.”