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

JOHN GREEN observes how Berlin’s transformation from socialist aspiration to imperial nostalgia mirrors Germany’s dangerous trajectory under Chancellor Merz — a BlackRock millionaire and anti-communist preparing for a new war with Russia

