"Manifesto of the Communist Party",1847: In June 1847 a secret society, The League of the Just, composed mainly of emigrant German handicraftsmen, met in London and decided to formulate a political program. They asked Marx to join the League. Marx finally overcame his doubts and , with Engels joined the organization, which thereupon changed its name to the Communist League and enacted a democratic constitution, the "Manifesto of the Communist Party".
"Das Kapital", 1867-1895: The "Bible of the working class" as it was officially described in a resolution of the International Working Men Association. In it Marx argued that Bourgeois society like every social organism, must follow its inevitable path of development. Through the working of such imminent tendencies as the declining rate of profit, capitalism would die and be replaced by another, higher, society.
1849 Prussia: "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" published, "an organ of democracy", which advocated nonpayment of taxes, and armed resistance against Emperor Frederick William. Publication of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" was suspended, and the editor, Marx was tried for treason. Although unanimously acquitted by a middle-class jury, he was expelled from the country.
1929 China : The Nationalist government sent armies against the sporadic Communist outbreaks in the provinces, and stopped, where possible, the reading of the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" and "Das Kapital."
1843 Germany-Cologne: after the suppression of "Rheinische Zeitung", Marx was exiled in Paris and Brussels, but returned at the outbreak of revolution in 1848.
c.1845 France: Marx was expelled at the insistence of the Prussian Foreign Office for contributing to the radical magazine "Vorwarts", which was then liquidated.
1878 Germany: Following two attempts on the life of William I, Bismarck persuaded the Reichstag to enact stringent measures against the Social Democrats, and prohibited their literature, including the "Manifesto of the Communist Party".
1950-1953 United States: Marx's works, along with Communist writings generally, were heavily criticized in the United States. The Boston Public Library, under attack by the Boston Post for including Communist work in its collections, put the issue to a vote of its trustees, who upheld the inclusion of such works by a 3-2 vote.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.