ENGELS TO PAUL LAFARGUE*”” 

AT LE PERREUX 

London, 27 May 1889 

My dear Lafargue, 

By the same post I am sending you the report on the Alliance. 
Would you also like to have the Fictitious Splits>? 

Send me the article for the Russian review, 
Danielson. 

Since Lavrov has turned coy,**” write to N. Axelrod, Kephir-Anstalt, 
Hirschengraben, Zurich and ask him to get you, besides his own, the 
signatures of Vera Zasulich (since you haven’t got her address), and 
those of G. Plekhanov and other Russian Marxists. That will astound 
our worthy eclectic. 

The English Convocation** is already at the printers; tomorrow I 
shall have the proofs, and distribution will begin the day after. 

Parnell has refused his signature as a private person, but has given it 
in his capacity as the HONORARY SECRETARY of the LABOUR 
ELECTORAL ASSOCIATION.“ 

Since you must have received this signature, together with those of its 
other members (Champion, Mann, Bateman), I did not telegraph you, 
for you would, of course, take the signatures as sent to you direct, and 
not from my letter. 

The reason is that he is being sent by his TRADES UNION (cabinet 
makers) to the Possibilist congress, where he and Burns will support our 
line. If the Possibilists oppose their proposal for a merger, they might 
even part company with them and join us. But that is, as yet, the music 
of the future.**? 

If I seemed insistent, it was because of the contradictory information 
that was coming in from Paris, and because I didn’t know whether or 

and I’ll send it on to 

4K. Marx and FE Engels, The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the 
International Working Men’s Association. Report and Documents, Published by 
Decision of the Hague Congress of the International (see present edition, Vol. 
23) — » K. Marx and F. Engels, Fictitious Splits in the International (see present 
edition, Vol. 23) 

not agreement had been reached as to the text of the Convocation. But 
now things will get going over here as well.—It will be a thunderbolt. 

Your tactics are best, more especially since you haven’t got a paper 
and since everyone in France has already taken sides. Here, where not a 
few are still sitting on the fence and where, in addition, we must try and 
shake the faith of those who have already gone over to the enemy—and 
it can be done—we must go into the attack. 

Tomorrow I shall at least, I hope, be able to put in a little anti- 
Hyndman work; today, all my time has been taken up with arrange- 
ments for the English Convocation and with running errands. 

The letter from Lyons was in the enclosed envelope. I sent it to you 
so that you might decipher the name and address of the signatory for 
me.*'6 It contained a request for copies of my writings. However, you 
appear to have received my accompanying letter asking you to enlighten 
me on the above. 

Yours ever, 
In haste F. E. 

Farjat must let us have a definite yea or nay—perhaps he had left 
before the vote was taken?**+