George Julian Harney

George Julian Harney ( born February 17, 1817 in Deptford, † December 9, 1897 in Richmond upon Thames ) was a British politician and was a leader of the left wing of the Chartists.

His father was a sailor, he was a professional salesman and journalist. In 1837 he founded with Davenport and Neesom the London Working Men 's Association. 1840 Harney took part in the founding of the National Charter Association. In 1850 he was elected along with his friend Ernest Charles Jones in the executive branch of the organization. Under his management and employees, the newspaper Northern Star became the influential voice of the Chartists. 1845 Harney joined the League of the Just (later the Communist League ), he was now also in conjunction with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. After 1848/49 he tried in vain, " proletarian - revolutionary force " the Chartist movement as to profile. In this context, he published two magazines: Democratic Review, and The Red Republican. In the latter, the Manifesto of the Communist Party in 1850 first appeared in English.

1851 there was a temporary break with Marx and Engels. End of 1852, Harney drew largely withdrew from political life in 1862 and moved to Boston, where he served as Secretary for the Government of Massachusettsarbeitet. It was not until 1888 he returned to Europe (Jersey). 1869 Member of the International Working Men's Association. From 1888, he wrote for the Newcastle Chronicle then a weekly column and was in constant correspondence with Engels.

Works

• The red Republican & The Friend of the People. Ed. by George Julian Harney. London 1850 - 1851 (Reprint Merlin Press, London 1966)
• The Democratic review of British and foreign politics, history, and literature. (Reprint Merlin Press, London 1966)