AMSTERDAM, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 170 years ago, today has its only surviving handwritten draft page on display in a somber archive hall ...

The Central Compilation & Translation Bureau (CCTB) has published a new version of the "Selected Works of Marx and Engels" and amended the "Selected Works of Lenin." The third edition of the "Selected ...

Reflecting on the contributions of Friedrich Engels on his bicentenary brings three issues to mind. The first issue is, how do we read his writings today? A lot of his writings were polemics against ...

Money Quote: "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains." Fundamentals: Engels was born rich--the heir to a cotton fortune--and he loved the good life: champagne, foxhunting, late-night ...

Industrialist's son and revolutionary thinker: Friedrich Engels, who co-wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, was born 200 years ago in Wuppertal. A day of celebrations and protests. Friedrich ...

Pamphlet by Engels responding to an "open letter" by the Russian revolutionary Pyotr Tkachev, in which Tkachev had criticized Engels' understanding of the Russian situation. Engels was writing shortly ...

A cartoon work illustrated by Friedrich Engel while he was working at his father's firm, which is shown in the documentary. [Photo provided to China Daily] The Excellent Engels, a two-part historical ...

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 ...

Friedrich Engels wasn't born a revolutionary, but over the course of several beer-soaked days in Paris, he became part of "the greatest friendship in Western political thought." Author and historian ...

Iconic socialist thinker Friedrich Engels is to return to Manchester in statue form - more than 150 years after the city inspired his revolutionary writings. Manchester International Festival has ...