Marx in Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 1848

Appeal of the Democratic District Committee of the Rhine Province [40]

by Karl Marx

Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 143
Translated by the Marx-Engels Institute
1994

Cologne, November 14. The Rhenish District Committee of Democrats
calls upon all democratic associations in the Rhine Province immediately
to convene their associations and organize everywhere popular meetings
in order to encourage the entire population of the Rhine Province to refuse
to pay taxes, since this is the most effective measure of protest against
the arbitrary acts committed by the government against the assembly of
Prussian elected representatives.

It is necessary to advise against any violent resistance in the
case of taxes collected under a writ of execution, but it can be recommended
that at public sales people should refrain from bidding.

In order to agree on further measures, the District Committee
is of the opinion that a congress of deputies from all associations should
be held, and herewith invites them to meet on Thursday, November 23, at
9 a.m. (in Eiser's Hall, Komodienstrasse, Cologne).

For the District Committee

Karl Marx

Schneider II

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