Notes on the Condition of the Refugees from the Commune

Author(s)	Karl Marx
Written	November 1871

Written in early November 1871
First published, in Russian, in Kommunist, No. 2, Moscow, 1971
Printed according to the manuscript
Translated from the French
Published in English for the first time
Source: Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 23

Collection(s): Kommunist

These notes were presumably written by Marx in connection with the measures taken by the General Council of the International to organise aid for the refugees of the Paris Commune (see Note 50).

460 (foreigners) arrested on the fall of the Commune. 5 months on the pontoons. Order of nonsuit.

Disembarked at Newhaven; had not received any food on the boat. They were released scarcely clothed, without money, told to apply to their respective consuls for help in getting out of their plight.

Made their way, partly on foot, from Newhaven to London.