Collected Works, Volume 8: 1848-1849

Volume Eight of the Collected Works of Marx and Engels contains their writings from November 8, 1848, to March 5, 1849. This is the second of three volumes (Vols. 7-9) covering the period of revolutions in 1848 and 1849.

The bulk of the volume consists of articles written by Marx and Engels for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, organ of the revolutionary- proletarian wing of German and European democracy. These articles, like the rest of the contents of this volume — the letters written by Engels on behalf of the workers’ organisations of Switzerland, the accounts (published in the Appendices) of Marx’s and Engels’ speeches at the meetings of workers and democrats in Cologne, and so on — demonstrate the part which Marx and Engels played in the revolutionary events of those days.