Marx and Engels in Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 1848

Appeal

Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 147 (second edition)
Translated by the Marx-Engels Institute
1994

Cologne, November 18. The Rhenish District Committee of Democrats
calls upon all democratic associations in the Rhine Province to have the
following measures decided upon and carried through:

1. Since the Prussian National Assembly itself has ruled that
taxes are not to be paid, their forcible collection must be resisted everywhere
and in every way.

2. In order to repulse the enemy the local militia must be organized
everywhere. The cost of weapons and ammunition for impecunious citizens
is to be defrayed by the community or by voluntary contributions.

3. The authorities are to be asked everywhere to state publicly
whether they recognize the decisions of the National Assembly and intend
to carry them out. In case of refusal committees of public safety are to
be set up, and where possible this should be done with the consent of the
local councils. Local councils opposed to the Legislative Assembly should
be re-elected by a universal vote.

For the Rhenish District Committee of Democrats

Karl Marx

Karl Schapper

Schneider II

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