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Socialists from all lands pay tribute at Marx Oration
by Ben Chacko
at Highgate Cemetery
Communist Party chair Liz Payne speaks to the crowd
SOCIALISTS and communists from all over the world gathered at Karl Marx’s tomb in London today to honour the revolutionary thinker.
The annual Marx Oration saw increased turnout as people came to show their support following two high-profile attacks on Marx’s grave this year.
The attacks were doubly “hurtful and disrespectful” because of the number of international communists buried near him, in the words of Marx Memorial Library (MML) chair Alex Gordon.
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