Das Volk

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	Texts published in Das Volk	Author	Date
∅	What we want (Das Volk)	Stephan Born	May 1848
	The Campaign in Italy (May 1859)	Friedrich Engels	May 1859
	Military Events (June 1859)	Friedrich Engels	Jun 1859
	Statement by the Editorial Board of the Newspaper Das Volk	Karl Marx Wilhelm Wolff Friedrich Engels Ferdinand Freiligrath	Jun 1859
	A Chapter of History (June 1859)	Friedrich Engels	Jun 1859
	The Austrian Withdrawal to the Mincio	Friedrich Engels	Jun 1859
	Spree and Mincio	Karl Marx	Jun 1859
	The Battle at Solferino (June 1859)	Friedrich Engels	Jun 1859
	Quid Pro Quo (Marx, 1859)	Karl Marx	Jul 1859
	The Battle of Solferino	Friedrich Engels	Jul 1859
	Erfurtery in the Year 1859	Karl Marx	Jul 1859
	Introductory Note to the"Memoir on Russia, for the Instruction of the Present Emperor"	Karl Marx	Jul 1859
	On Ernest Jones. From the "Political Review" of Das Volk	Karl Marx	Jul 1859
	Gatherings from the Press	Karl Marx	Jul 1859
	Invasion! (July 1859)	Karl Marx	Jul 1859
	Note by the Editorial Board of Das Volk	Karl Marx Friedrich Engels	Jul 1859
	Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy	Friedrich Engels	Aug 1859
	The Italian War - Retrospect	Friedrich Engels	Aug 1859
	Political Review (August 1859)	Karl Marx Wilhelm Liebknecht	Aug 1859

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From note 283 in MECW Vol. 16 :

Das Volk—a German-language weekly published in London from May 7 to August 20, 1859—was founded as the official organ of the German Workers' Educational Society in London (see Note 455). Its first issue appeared under the editorship of the German journalist and petty-bourgeois democrat Elard Biscamp. Beginning with issue No. 2 Marx took an active part in its publication: he gave it advice, edited articles, organised material support, and so on. In issue No. 6 of June 11, the Editorial Board officially named Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Wilhelm Wolff and Heinrich Heise as its contributors (see Statement by the Editorial Board of the Newspaper Das Volk).

Marx's first article in the paper—"Spree and Mincio"—was printed on June 25. Under Marx's influence Das Volk began to turn into a militant revolutionary working-class newspaper. In the beginning of July Marx became its virtual editor and manager.

Das Volk reflected the elaboration by Marx and Engels of questions concerning the revolutionary theory and tactics of the working-class struggle, described the class struggles of the proletariat, and relentlessly fought the exponents of petty-bourgeois ideology. It analysed from the standpoint of proletarian internationalism the events of the Austro-Italian-French war of 1859 and the questions of German and Italian unification, exposed the foreign policy of Britain, Prussia, France, Russia and other reactionary states, and consistently opposed Bonapartism and its overt and covert supporters.

Das Volk carried Marx's preface to his work A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, six of his articles, including the unfinished series Quid pro Quo, seven articles by Engels and his review of Marx's Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, and reviews of the newspaper of the German petty-bourgeois democrats, the Hermann, by Marx and Biscamp (they appeared in the section "Gatherings from the Press"). Besides, many articles and political reviews written by different authors were edited personally by Marx. In all, sixteen issues appeared. The newspaper ceased publication for lack of money.