Was the Rhine Newspaper [ 1842 - 1843 ], a left wing operation. The first editor was Karl Marx until it was shut down by the government. The year of revolts came in 1848. The Mark II version, the Neue Rheinische Zeitung came later.
Rheinische Zeitung
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The Rheinische Zeitung ("Rhenish Newspaper") was a 19th-century German newspaper, edited most famously by Karl Marx.The paper was founded on January 1, 1842 with a reformist pro-democracy editorial slant, providing an outlet for the Rhine region's middle-class and intellectuals, who were increasingly opposed to Prussian authoritarianism. Max Stirner published The False Principle of our Education in April, and Marx first published in the paper on May 5, 1842. His article against Prussian government censorship, published anonymously with the credit "by a Rhinelander," was widely lauded in the progressive community. He followed with more articles on the subject through the rest of May, producing a six-part series on freedom of the press. The positive response to this series served to increase the paper's circulation and influence.
In October 1842, Marx was named editor of the paper. On November 16, Friedrich Engels visited the paper's offices on his way to England, meeting Marx for the first time and starting what would become a long period of collaboration between the two, lasting until Marx's death. Engels sent back a series of articles for publication in the Rheinische Zeitung from England, chronicling the conditions amongst the working class there; these would later be collected and published in his influential book, The Condition of the Working Class in England.
Under Marx's guidance, with additional influence from Engels, the paper began to take a more radical stance, openly opposing government policies with increasing stridency. An article by Marx critically discussing the relationship between the Prussian government and the Roman Catholic Church was censored by the state and never published; several other of his articles opposing government policies were allowed to be published, but drew intense scrutiny.
By early 1843 Marx was promoting dangerously radical ideologies through the paper, increasingly espousing socialist and communist viewpoints and nearly openly calling for a revolution to replace the Prussian monarchy with a democracy. The Prussian government had heard enough—on March 17, 1843 he resigned due to the censorship's being placed on his newspaper by the Prussian government, and the paper was shut down on March 31.
Marx went on to found the Neue Rheinische Zeitung ("New Rhenish Newspaper") in 1848.
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It did not last which proved it was effective and that the government was too.
Karl Marx
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Marx in Paris and Brussels
Owing to the conditions of censorship in Prussia, Marx retired from the editorial board of the Rheinische Zeitung, and planned to publish, with Arnold Ruge, another revolutionary from Germany, the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, (the German-French Annals) based in Paris, and arrived in late October 1843. Paris at this time served as the home and headquarters of German, British, Polish, and Italian revolutionaries. In Paris, on August 28, 1844, at the Café de la Régence on the Place du Palais he met Friedrich Engels, who would become his most important friend and life-long companion. Engels had met Marx only once before (and briefly) at the office of the Rheinische Zeitung in 1842; he went to Paris to show Marx his recently published book, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. This book convinced Marx that the working class would be the agent and instrument of the final revolution in history.
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Marx was a long term trouble maker.