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.
ALMA EGAN suggests four days out that bring the region’s history of protest to life
Keir Starmer's early political life suggests a very different future from the one he ultimately embraced, says KEITH FLETT
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism



