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Second Congress of the Communist League

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At this meeting Karl Marx (attending as delegate of the Brussels Circle) and Frederick Engels (representing the Paris communities) were commissioned to write an action programme for the Communist League. This programme was published in February 1848 in German as 'Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei' or the Communist Manifesto.

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Second Congress of the Communist League

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The plaque fails to give the year of the Second Congress - it was 1847.

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