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Thanks to a generous grant from the German Academy of Sciences (Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften), the historical-critical edition of the complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich... [News]
Karl Marx is omnipresent at the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia. In the Central Pavilion at the Giardini, the "Das Kapital Oratorio" is being read three times a day by... [News]
Haymarket Books published a new paperback edition of Beyond Marx. Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the 21st Century, edited by IISH former Director of Research Marcel van der Linden and Karl... [News]
The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue... [News]
In June 2013, the only surviving handwritten page of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto (1848) and the first edition of volume I of Das Kapital (1867), with the author’s handwritten corrections in the... [News]
Traditional labour history focuses at just one segment of workers: wage earners in industry, agriculture, mining and transport. Other segments, however, like domestic servants, soldiers, housewives... [News]
Volume III-12 of the Marx-Engels correspondence covering the period 1862-1864 has recently appeared. This is the latest work in the series edited by the Internationale Marx-Engels Stiftung IMES. IMES... [News]
Based on the Kautsky and Bernstein papers at the IISH, a new volume was published in the series Quellen und Studien zur Sozialgeschichte. The correspondence between Eduard Bernstein en Karl Kautsky... [News]
The Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung (IMES) was established in 1990 in Amsterdam. The IMES is an international network of the International Intitute of Social History,  the Berlin-Brandenburgische... [Project]
Die Korrespondenz zwischen Eduard Bernstein und Karl Kautsky, den "Meisterschülern" von Marx und Engels, ist einer der wichtigsten Quellenbestände für die Geschichte der Sozialdemokratie und der... [Publication]

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