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Karl Marx

June 2024

  • Manchester's Deansgate skyscrapers

    Luxury penthouse in Manchester named after Friedrich Engels

    Referencing socialist thinker is latest example of city repurposing its radical history for profit, say local people

February 2024

  • Alasdair Elliott and Roland Wood in Scottish Opera's production of Marx in London!

    Marx in London! review – Dove’s opera is capital entertainment

    A magnificent cast led by Roland Wood and Stephen Barlow’s vivid staging ensure that Scottish Opera’s production of Jonathan Dove’s rumbustious farce is both cogent and witty

January 2024

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation<br>LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 8: Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode, "The Hunted." Season 3, episode 11. Original air date, January 8, 1990. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

    Brief letters
    Did Star Trek boldly foresee the reunification of Ireland in 2024?

  • Death Star in a scene from the (C)Twentieth Century Fox film: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) .

    Brief letters
    Stop mithering, Owen, and let us enjoy watching the Tory Death Star explode

  • The tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery, London.

    Brief letters
    Is now the time for Karl Marx’s resurrection?

  • Karl Marx’s grave in Highgate cemetery, north London

    £25,000 for a burial plot next to Karl Marx? The philosopher would turn in his grave

December 2023

  • books copy

    How did the world get like this? Eight books to help explain the way we live now

    Inequality and poverty arose by design, not chance and stories of human rights abuses and failures in development have deep roots. Here, Prof Benjamin Selwyn recommends key non-fiction texts to help unravel some global complexities

September 2023

  • The outside of the Royal Society of Arts

    ‘Hypocritical’ Royal Society of Arts faces its first strike in 270 years

    Union anger over below-inflation pay offer of just 4%

March 2023

  • Simon Clarke’s work examined the 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of Karl Marx’s theory of crisis

    Other lives
    Simon Clarke obituary

  • Brendan Fraser in The Whale

    Why The Whale ends up dehumanising us all

February 2023

  • Kohei Saito

    A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis

    Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking

January 2023

  • Man clutching piles of  paper money

    Brief letters
    Greedy Tories? That rings a (Steve) Bell

    Brief letters: Conservative plutocrats | Politicians’ replies | Allotment radicalism | Tory ethics | Wild-camping Wombles?

December 2022

  • Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, * 11.11.1929, German author / writer, half length, on the balcony of his flat in Munich Schwabing, 1988,. Image shot 1988. Exact date unknown.<br>CPY6H2 Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, * 11.11.1929, German author / writer, half length, on the balcony of his flat in Munich Schwabing, 1988,. Image shot 1988. Exact date unknown.

    Hans Magnus Enzensberger obituary

    German poet, writer and editor determined that West Germany should not ignore its Nazi past

November 2022

  • Mike Davis’s book City of Quartz tracked the development of Los Angeles from pre-history to post-Hollywood.

    Mike Davis obituary

    American writer, political activist and historian who focused on the breakdown of society and urban disintegration

August 2022

  • The national Covid memorial wall in London.

    Brief letters
    It’s easy to forget that lockdowns saved lives

    Brief letters: Blaming Covid | Profiting from poverty | Tree cover in Dorset | Giving the plot away | Mournful dogs

July 2022

  • First Dog on the Moon

    Karl Marx? The sun? The Newcastle Channel Nine weather fellow? Who is the hero of our times?

    First Dog on the Moon
    Should it be British hedgehog advocate Hugh Warwick, or the baker who invented the South Australian “frog cake”?

October 2021

  • The Penguin Classics paperback edition of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

    Pass notes
    Why Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto is having a moment

    The Canadian musician Grimes tweeted an image of herself with the 1848 document last week – just after her reported split from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. She isn’t the only one reading it right now

September 2020

  • Siegfried at Oper Leipzig … Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music revisits the composer’s political beliefs.

    Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner?

  • Lea Ypi

    Why does the right keep pretending the left runs Britain?

    Lea Ypi

August 2020

  • Windows

    21 brilliant ideas to remake the world
    Johny Pitts: ‘Multiculturalism has been hijacked by the global elite’

    This is how we can reclaim it for everyday life
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