In Milan, Ferrara, Naples, everywhere there are friends of 
Bakunin. As for the Fascio Operaio* of Bologna, we have never had 
a word from it. The Jura party, abandoned everywhere, seems to 
want to make Italy its great fortress. This party has formed within 
the International a secret society” for the purpose of dominating 
it; we have in our possession proofs as regards Spain, it must be 
the same thing in Italy. These men, who always have on their lips 
the words autonomy and free federation, treat the workers like a 
flock of sheep which is good only for being directed by the heads 
of this secret society and used to attain ends unknown to the 
masses. You have had a good example of this in Terzaghi 
(investigations are being made concerning the handing over of the 
letter). The Jura Committee, having revolted against the whole 
organisation of the International, and knowing that it would have 
had great difficulty in justifying itself at the Congress in the 
coming September, is now searching everywhere for letters and 
mandates originating from the General Council in order to 
fabricate a false accusation against us. We fully agree to all our 
letters being read at the Congress but it does not suit us to learn 
that the same letters which we wrote to this or that section have 
been placed at the disposal of these gentlemen.“ 

Meanwhile we ask you to postpone any decision and then act as 
the interests of the International dictate to you; I hope that you 

will discover that it was not the General Council, but certainly 

these Jura men, acting exclusively in the interest of the ambition 

of Bakunin, the head of the secret society, who sowed the discord. 
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