Founding document of the modern working-class movement, published in 1848. Explains why communism is not a set of preconceived principles but the line of march of the working class toward power, “springing from an existing class struggle, a historical movement going on under our very eyes.

Introduction by Leon Trotsky, notes, index. Now with enlarged type.

Identical editions also available in Spanish, French, Farsi, and Arabic.