Wilhelm Liebknecht becomes one of the leaders…

Wilhelm Liebknecht becomes one of the leaders of the SDAP and the leading publisher of the party organ, Der Volksstaat ("the People's State"), the first issue of which is published on October 1 in Leipzig, under the editorship of Liebknecht and Wilhelm Hasenclever (until 1878).

It will henceforth be published three times weekly, and will be the official newspaper of the SPD until the 1990s.