The General Council to the New Madrid Federation

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Author(s) First International
Frederick Engels
Written 15 August 1872


First published in La Emancipación, No. 63, August 24, 1872
Printed according to the newspaper
Translated from the Spanish
Source : Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 23
Collection(s): La Emancipación
Keywords : Madrid, Spain

The New Madrid Federation (see Note 157) published this letter together with the information that it had been recognised by the General Council of the International.

The letter was published in English for the first time in The General Council of the First International. 1871-1872. Minutes, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1968.

The Executive Committee, entrusted by the General Council with temporarily carrying out all the administrative business of the Association,

in view of the New Madrid Federation’s letter of August 5, requesting its recognition by the General Council;

in view of the Spanish regional Federal Council’s resolution of July 16, refusing to admit the said federation;

considering that, formally, it would be absurd to share in this matter the attitude of a regional Federal Council, the majority of which are members of a secret society hostile to the International, and which the General Council intends opposing at the Congress; considering that, essentially, the founders of the New Madrid Federation are the very people who were the first in Spain to dare disassociate themselves from this secret society called the Alliance of Socialist Democracy, and disclose and thwart its schemes.

For these reasons,

the Executive Committee, on behalf of the General Council, has resolved to recognise the New Madrid Federation and enter into regular and direct relations with it.

London, August 15, 1872

In the name of the Executive Committee

Secretary for Spain,

Frederick Engels

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