In 'The Iron Heel', what is the name of the document that tells the story?

In Jack London's The Iron Heel, the story is presented through the Everhard Manuscript.

The manuscript is attributed to Avis Everhard, who records the political struggles and revolutionary experiences surrounding her husband, Ernest Everhard. The framing device places this document far in the future, where a scholar named Anthony Meredith adds footnotes and commentary. Meredith writes from around 2600 AD, after the eventual fall of the ruling Oligarchy and the emergence of the Brotherhood of Man.

This structure gives the novel two historical viewpoints at once. Avis describes events as someone living through them, while Meredith looks back with knowledge of how the long conflict will eventually end. His notes also reveal that the early revolutionaries' efforts are destined to fail, creating a sense of tragic inevitability.

The Iron Heel was published in 1908 and imagines a powerful corporate elite seizing control to suppress a growing socialist movement. The ruling system is called the Oligarchy, commonly associated with the title's “Iron Heel.” The Communist Manifesto is a real political text, but it is not the document that tells London's fictional story.