Freidrich ENGELS once wrote that “an ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
But fans of the communist thinker won’t have to compromise on either aspect of class politics when a five-foot sculpture of his famous beard — that doubles a climbing wall — is built in Manchester.
Students and workers alike will be able to scale the structure when its unveiled at Salford University in 2016.
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
PAWEL WARGAN juxtaposes the thriving industrial centre Jiayuguan in China, with the prevailing images of decaying East European great industrial cities
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the extraordinary race against time to ensure London’s memorial to the International Brigades got built – as activists gather next week to celebrate the monument’s 40th anniversary


