14. Karl Marx. To the Editor of De Werker

London, March 31, 1871

Citizen,

My so-called letter addressed to the Paris members of the International is quite simply, as I have already stated in The Times of the 22nd March,3 a fabrication by the Paris-Journal? one of these disreputable papers spawned in the imperialist gutter. Moreover, all the organs of the "good press" throughout Europe have, so it seems, received the order to employ falsification as their major weapon of war against the International. In the eyes of these honest advocates of religion, order, the family and property the crime of falsification is not even a peccadillo.

Greetings and Fraternity,

Karl Marx

First published in the newspaper De Werker, No. 23, April 8, 1871

Printed according to the manuscript, verified with the newspaper

Translated from the French

Published in English for the first time

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Endnotes

a See this volume, p. 285.— Ed. b "Lettre du Grand Chef de l'Internationale", Paris-Journal, No. 76, March 19, 1871.—Ed