This is an original 1872 Illustrated London News describing the life in the Communard club house in Rupert st. The paper has 26 pages and includes many additional interesting articles and lithographs
An evocative image from the so-called black country in Wolverhampton. It was previously loaned by Heiko to the German Historical Museum in Berlin for its exhibition Karl Marx and Industrial Capitalism in 2022.
Paul Lafargue (Marx's son-in-law married to Laura) sent this letter to Karl Kautsky the leader of German Social Democracy. Lafargue enclosed an article he wrote on the history of romanticism that was published in the French Newspaper The Social Future in June 1896. He asks if Kautsky can republish it in the German Magazine Die Neue Zeit.