In such a position of public opinion, Marx made it clear that the proletariat must support the liberation movement in the colonies

In a total of more than five hundred articles written by Marx and Engels for the New York Daily Tribune, the important political or social events of the time were discussed, and not a single item was missed.

They spoke of the tenacious struggle of the British working class, of the uncertain future of the Bonaparte regime in France and of the context of the Crimean War, of the overt and covert intentions of British foreign policy, of the german democratic movement, which had resurrected with difficulty.

In dealing with these questions, both of them are always adept at exposing the flaws of the capitalist system, at revealing the attitudes of the reactionaries in the European countries, and at bringing the reader to the conclusion that only the proletariat can abolish the phenomenon of inhuman life in the old society. Many of Marx's articles were reprinted in the British press or distributed in England in the form of leaflets.

Marx was definitely not just looking at Europe. He has begun to systematically study countries as far away as China and India. He denounced the predatory colonial policies of the capitalist countries and watched with concern the liberation struggles of the masses of the people in India and other countries against the colonizers. He saw these anti-colonial national liberation movements as a support for the revolutionary movements in Europe.

Marx said: "If the present ruling class in Great Britain itself has not been overthrown by the industrial proletariat, if the Indians themselves have not been strong enough to be completely freed from the yoke of England, then the fruits of the seeds of the new social component sown by the British bourgeoisie in India will not be reaped by the Indian people." But, in any case, we can look forward with confidence that in the near future we will see for ourselves the renaissance of this enticing power. ”

Marx also wrote articles on China, India, and Ireland, then under British colonial rule. In these articles he expounded for the first time the idea that the revolutionary proletariat must support any type of liberation movement in the colonies, because the workers and colonial peoples of Europe have a common enemy, the bourgeoisie.

(Gemkov's "Marx" reading notes)