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Events on Wednesday 8 December 1847 1
1847Communist League founded in LondonMarx and Engels are commissioned to write its manifestoThe League of the Just reorganised itself as the Communist League at a congress in London in June. At its second congress in November and December, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were asked to draft its programme. The result was the Communist Manifesto of 1848.