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Debat: Is Karl Marx nog actueel?
Spui25, in samenwerking met het Instituut voor Cultuur en GeschiedenisHet communisme heeft zijn failliet bewezen en het kapitalisme heeft moeite zich op een sociaal aanvaardbare manier overeind te... [Event]
The Rheinische Zeitung and Karl Marx
The first political piece that Karl Marx (age 24) wrote after his dissertation was a polemic against censorship in the spring of 1841. The Zensurinstruktion proclaimed by the Prussian government on... [Image gallery]
Itineraries of Kapital
Das Kapital  endured a turbulent journey before arriving safely at the International Institute of Social History in 1938. It all began in the British Museum, where Marx took the notes for his... [Collection highlight]
Ernest Mandel
In February 2008 a large ancient metal crate arrived from Belgium full of papers dealing with the Fourth International and Ernest Mandel. Ernest Mandel's papers had been deposited at the Institute... [Collection highlight]
Marx-Engels Papers
The IISH now has a thousand inventories available online. The serial number 1000 has been reserved for the Institute's best known and most frequently researched archival collection, the Marx-Engels... [Collection highlight]
Kautsky archives reunited
In 1938, the Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky and his wife Luise deposited their enormous archive at the IISH. It survived the war sheltered in the institute's British section. In the fifties, when... [Collection highlight]
Unesco Certificate
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]
'Beyond Marx'
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]
Marx anticipated revolution starting in Poland
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]
Correspondence Kautsky-Bernstein
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]

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