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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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Janet Gillman

Janet Gillman

Former councillor and mayor of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir William J. Lancaster

Sir William J. Lancaster

Philanthropist.  Born Norfolk.  Prominent Putney resident, co-founder of the Putney School of Art 1883, Mayor of Wandsworth 1901-2, and churchwarden of St Mary's for 30 years.  Aged 17 joined the P...

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Sir Charles Reed

Sir Charles Reed

Politician. Member of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Director and Trustee of the original Abney Park Cemetery Joint Stock Company, Chairman of the Bunhill Fields Preservation Committee, asso...

Person, History, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
William Huskisson

William Huskisson

Huskisson is famous for being the victim of the first fatal railway accident (not quite true), being run over by the train known as Stevenson's Rocket, at the opening ceremony of the Manchester to ...

Person, Politics & Administration, Tragedy

2 memorials