Four words in a newspaper review of a 400-page biography. That was all it took to send Gavin McCrea on the trail of Lizzie Burns, a cotton worker from the 19th-century Irish slums of Manchester. It ...

In disputes with anarchists Marxists have often been quick to refer to Bakunin’s (and occasionally, Proudhon’s) anti-Semitism to try to dismiss the credibility of all that Bakunin ever wrote.

Portrait of a young revolutionary: Friedrich Engels at age 21, in 1842, the year he moved to Manchester–and the year before he met Mary Burns. Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels’ life appears replete ...

In 1842, at the age of 22, Friedrich Engels was sent to Manchester to do a two-year internship at his father's cotton mill. As intended, this training prepared the young Engels for a career in the ...

A collection of writings from Marx and Engels, consisting of 50 volumes, known as the Marx-Engels Collected Works (MECW). The collection includes all of Marx's and Engels' major works, as well as ...