Marx presents Value, Price and Profit to the First International

As the U.S. Civil War began, Marx and Engels followed the conflict as a struggle whose outcome would shape slavery, labor, and democracy. Marx’s later journalism supported emancipation and...

Marx argued that the conflict could not be understood apart from slavery and the political power of the slaveholding class. His reporting connected emancipation in the United States to workers’...

Mary Burns, Engels’s long-time partner and a working-class Irish woman, died suddenly. She had introduced Engels to working-class neighborhoods and lives in Manchester, but her own history is sparsely...

Workers and trade-unionists from several countries founded the First International at St Martin’s Hall. Marx drafted its inaugural address and rules, but the association’s political force came from...

The General Council backed Polish national independence, linking resistance to imperial domination with international worker solidarity. Marx helped draft the resolution, but the debate also reflected...

Delegates debated trade unions, working hours, education, and political organization. Marx prepared instructions for the congress, but the policy agenda emerged from national labor movements and...

Capital analyzed how commodity production, wage labor, and surplus value organize capitalist accumulation. The book drew on global trade and colonial dispossession, though its treatment of colonialism...

In correspondence with physician and socialist Ludwig Kugelmann, Marx discussed political organization and the lessons of the Commune of 1848 in France. Letters reveal his thinking in motion and...

The Eisenach congress founded an organized socialist party with strong links to Marx and Engels, while reflecting the work of Wilhelm Liebknecht, August Bebel, and German workers. Its program combined...

After retiring from the Manchester firm, Engels moved to London and worked closely with Marx and the International. He continued writing, organizing, and providing financial support, while pursuing...