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A view of the grave of Marxist philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883) in Highgate Cemetery East in Highgate, north London
“WORKERS of all lands, unite” reads the inscription on Karl Marx’s tomb in London’s Highgate Cemetery — and workers’ unity was the call from speakers at the annual Marx Oration today.
Public and Commercial Services union president Fran Heathcote warned that “our movement has been set back over the past 40 years for one simple reason. Whatever divisions exist among the Tories and the Establishment, they are always completely united when they attack us.
“We have more often than not responded by fighting back in isolation.
A lifelong communist and community organiser, Pinder helped shape anti-racist and anti-colonial activism in Britain while dedicating himself to youth work and collective struggle, writes David Horsley
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
LYNNE WALSH reports from last weekend’s moving remembrance of the International Brigades in London’s Jubilee Gardens where anti-fascists gathered to hear how even in the darkest of times we can build a vision of a better tomorrow, as the Brigaders fought to do 89 years ago