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When the European working class had recovered sufficient strength for another attack on the ruling classes, the International Working Men's Association sprang up. As to the "Manifesto," it seemed thenceforth to be doomed to oblivion. Immediately after the sentence the League was formally dissolved by the remaining members. This celebrated "Cologne Communist trial" lasted from October 4th till November 12th seven of the prisoners were sentenced to terms of imprisonment in a fortress, varying from three to six years. The members were arrested, and after eighteen months' imprisonment, they were tried in October, 1852. Thus the Prussian police hunted out the Central Board of the Communist League, then located in Cologne. Wherever independent proletarian movements continued to show signs of life, they were ruthlessly hunted down. Thenceforth, the struggle for supremacy was again, as it had been before the revolution of February, solely between different sections of the propertied class ​the working class was reduced to a fight for political elbow-room, and to the position of extreme wing of the Middle-class Radicals. The defeat of the Parisian insurrection of June, 1848-the first great battle between Proletariat and Bourgeoisie-drove again into the background, for a time, the social and political aspirations of the European working class. A Danish and a Polish edition had also been published. The first English translation, by Miss Helen Macfarlane, appeared in George Julian Harney's "Red Republican," London, 1850. A French translation was brought out in Paris, shortly before the insurrection of June, 1848. Drawn up in German, in January, 1848, the manuscript was sent to the printer in London a few weeks before the French revolution of February 24th. At a Congress of the League, held in London in November, 1847, Marx and Engels were commissioned to prepare for publication a complete theoretical and practical party-program. The "Manifesto" was published as the platform of the "Communist League," a workingmen's association, first exclusively German, later an international, and under the political conditions of the Continent before 1848, unavoidably a secret society.