First published by Verso 2016
Introductions © Tariq Ali 2016
Notes to the Manifesto © Eric Hobsbawm 1998, 2016
‘The April Theses’ translation © Bernard Isaacs 1964, 2016
‘Letters from Afar’ translation © M. S. Levin, Joe Fineberg et al.
Manifesto of the Communist Party first published in English 1848;
this translation first published 1888
‘The April Theses [The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present
Revolution]’ first published in Pravda no. 26, 7 April 1917; published in
English in V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 24, 4th ed. (Moscow 1964)
‘Letters from Afar’ published in English in Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 23
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