Communist League

Communist League Bund der Kommunisten
Leader	Karl Schapper
President	Jean-Adolphus Roquefelliere
Founder	Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Karl Schapper
Founded	1 June 1847; 176 years ago (1 June 1847)
Dissolved	November 1852; 171 years ago (November 1852)
Merger of	League of the Just Communist Correspondence Committee
Succeeded by	First International
Headquarters	London Cologne (after 1848)
Newspaper	Kommunistische Zeitschrift (1847) Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848–1849) Neue Rheinische Zeitung Revue (1850)
Ideology	Communism Marxism Revolutionary socialism
Political position	Far-left
Colours	Red
Party flag

The Communist League (German: Bund der Kommunisten) was an international political party established on 1 June 1847 in London, England. The organisation was formed through the merger of the League of the Just, headed by Karl Schapper, and the Communist Correspondence Committee of Brussels, Belgium, in which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the dominant personalities. The Communist League is regarded as the first Marxist political party and it was on behalf of this group that Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto late in 1847. The Communist League was formally disbanded in November 1852, following the Cologne Communist Trial.