Communist League Communist League The Communist League ( "Bund der Kommunisten)" was an international political party established on June 1, 1847 in London, England. The organisation was formed through the merger of the League of the Just, headed by Karl Schapper and the Communist Correspondence Committee of Brussels, Belgium, in which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the dominant personalities. The Communist League is regarded as the first Marxist political party and it was on behalf of this group that Marx and Engels wrote the "Communist Manifesto" late in 1847. The Communist League was formally disbanded in 1852, following the Cologne Communist
Prague Manifesto Prague Manifesto The Prague Manifesto (in Russian: Пражский Манифест) was a document written by several members of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), an anti-communist coalition of former Soviet military and citizens who aimed to overthrow Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and establish a non-communist government in Russia, in alliance with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The manifesto was published on 14 November 1944. The Manifesto opened with a preamble that strongly criticized Stalin for crimes against the people of the USSR, including genocide via repression and engineered famines, and suppression of personal freedoms.