New-York Daily Tribune

A newspaper founded by Horace Greeley, a famous American journalist and political activist, published from 1841 to 1924. In 1924, the paper merged with the New York Herald and renamed as the New York Herald Tribune.

In the mid-1850s, it was first the newspaper which represented the left wing of the Whig Party in the United States, then became a newspaper of the Republican party. During the 1840s and 1850s, the newspaper took a progressive stand against slave property. In August 1851, editorial director Charles Dana invited Marx to write for the newspaper. By March 1862, Marx had written political articles for this newspaper in about ten years. The New-York Daily Tribune published a total of 465 newsletters written by Marx and Engels. These articles were sent under the name of Marx. The articles published by Marx and Engels in the New-York Daily Tribune were mainly related to international politics, workers’ movement, economic development of European countries, colonial expansion, national liberation movements of oppressed and dependent countries, so forth. During the historical period of reaction in Europe Marx and Engels used this widely circulated American newspaper to expose and criticize the grievances of capitalist society and various irreconcilable contradictions inherent in capitalism with concrete evidence, and to reveal the historical limitations of the bourgeois democracy.

The editorial board of the newspaper often treated the articles of Marx and Engels arbitrarily, publishing some of them as the articles of the editorial board without giving the authors’ names, and even changed the content of the articles at will, which had repeatedly caused Marx’s protests. In the autumn of 1857, due to the economic crisis in the United States, the financial situation of the newspaper was negatively affected, and the political position of the newspaper tended to lean to right, with the beginning of the American Civil War, Marx completely gave up writing to this newspaper. Marx’s last newsletter in the paper was “The Mexican Imbroglio”, published on March 10, 1862.