A Cologne jury acquits Marx in a press prosecution

Engels wrote a question-and-answer outline for the Communist League, clarifying positions on class, industry, and political change. It became a working precursor to the Manifesto and shows Engels’s...

At its second congress, the League asked Marx and Engels to prepare a public program. The decision followed collective debate among delegates and members; it was not a solitary authorship moment, even...

Commissioned by the Communist League and written principally by Marx with Engels’s collaboration, the Manifesto analyzed capitalism’s globalizing power and called for working-class political action....

The 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...

Marx 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...

The 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...

After 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...

Engels fought with revolutionary forces during the final phase of the 1848-49 uprisings. His military participation reflected a belief that political rights and social change would face armed state...

London became Marx’s home for the rest of his life. The family endured recurring poverty and illness while Marx researched capitalism in the British Museum and relied on Engels’s regular financial...

The address urged workers to maintain independent organization during pauses in revolutionary activity and warned against subordinating their interests to liberal allies. It argued for political...