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Karl Marx's tomb at Highgate Cemetery
THE Marx Grave Trust has warned that threats to the communist thinker’s tomb will “not be tolerated.”
The trust, which is the legal owner of Karl Marx’s family grave and its monument, said that “in the wake of the welcome campaign to remove or resite the statues of racists and slave-owners, there has been a backlash by pro-fascist elements and their right-wing supporters.”
It said that Marx, an opponent of slavery and racism, had never been honoured with a statue in Britain.
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