ABSTRACT
In September 1844, the New Moral World published the proceedings of a meeting held in honour of the German radical Wilhelm Weitling, who had recently found refuge in London. The event was attended by local Owenites such as George Jacob Holyoake and the editor of the New Moral World, George Alexander Fleming, and also welcomed delegates from various London-based foreign socialist organisations like the French Democratic Society and Germany’s League of the Just. On Sunday last, a very numerous assembly of British and Foreign Socialists took place at the Institution, John-street, for the purpose of welcoming Wilhelm Weitling, the leader of the German Communists, who has recently arrived in this country, after enduring imprisonment and persecution in Switzerland and Prussia, in consequence of his labours in the Communist cause. The meeting was also intended to introduce the members of the Rational Society to the Foreign Communists resident in London.
