Letter to Francisco Mora, around April 20, 1871

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 20 April 1871


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 33, Moscow 1964
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


ENGELS TO FRANCISCO MORA 1 9 5

IN MADRID

[Résumé of a letter]

[London, around 20 April 1871]

On 19 April the relevant extracts from Nos. 80-92 of the Federation about the SPINNERS' STRIKE in Barcelona[1] sent to Eccarius who was to report on it to the Manchester TRADE COUNCIL.

Wrote ditto to Mora, acknowledging receipt and reporting what had happened, pointing out that little help would be forthcoming because of the Belgian and Sunderland STRIKES and the general world situation.

The loan an essential instrument and the one we have mainly used up to now. Therefore the Barcelonese must write a letter binding themselves to repay all loan-monies received through the agency of the General Council. This only necessary to comply with the formalities of the English TRADE UNIONS.

Promise a copy of the Address on Paris.[2]

  1. ↑ See F. Engels, 'Outline of an Appeal of the General Council to the Weavers' and Spinners' Trade Unions of Manchester for Assistance to the Spanish Textile Workers Strike'.
  2. ↑ A reference to the appeal The Civil War in France, on which Marx was working at the time. It was first published in London on 13 June 1871, in English, as a pamphlet of 35 pages in 1,000 copies.