Historical Organization
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
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Organization Timeline
Marx and Engels return to the German states during revolution
📅 6 April 1848The revolutions of 1848 opened space for democratic and republican politics. Marx and Engels returned to organize and publish, joining broader struggles against autocracy while arguing for independent...
The Neue Rheinische Zeitung begins publication
📅 1 June 1848Marx edited the paper and Engels contributed reporting and analysis. It supported democratic revolution, criticized compromise with monarchies, and treated workers as political actors, while working...
A Cologne jury acquits Marx in a press prosecution
📅 9 February 1849Marx was tried for alleged press offenses connected with the revolutionary newspaper. His acquittal did not end repression: the paper was closed months later and he was expelled. The episode shows...
Marx’s Wage Labour and Capital lectures appear in the press
📅 5 April 1849The lectures, delivered to workers in 1847, were published as a series in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Marx explained wages as the price of labor-power and linked workers’ bargaining to the wider...
The Neue Rheinische Zeitung publishes its final issue
📅 19 May 1849After the defeat of revolutionary movements and state repression, the paper was forced to close. Its final issue printed in red ink symbolized the defeat of the democratic uprising; Marx was...