Your issue No 39 contains a declaration of Turin workers which states: This assertion compels the General Council to declare: 1) That it has never passed any decision putting socialism after politics. 2) That accordingly it could not have withdrawn such a decision. 3) That no European or American association could have rejected such a decision nor was any other decision of the General Council rejected. The position of the General Council in regard to political action by the proletariat is sufficiently clearly defined. It has been defined: 1) By the General Rules, which state, in point 4 of the Preamble, that the economical emancipation of the working classes is... the great end to which every political movement ought to be subordinate as a means .  2) By the text of the Inaugural Address of the Association (1864), the official and obligatory commentary of the Rules, which says: 3) By the resolution of the Lausanne Congress (1867) to the following effect: The social emancipation of the workers is inseparable from their political emancipation. 4) By resolution IX of the London Conference (September 1871), which, in accordance with the aforesaid, reminds the members of the International that in the struggle of the working class its economic movement and its political action are indissolubly united.  The Council has always followed and will continue to follow the line thus prescribed to it. Hence it declares the above-mentioned communication sent by some unknown person to the editorial board of the Proletario to be false and calumnious.
Marx-Engels Correspondence 1871