News about Karl Marx

A 'Karl Marx' is among the dozens of victorious local Labour councillors to be elected overnight. Councillor Karl Peter Marx Wardlaw (left), who shares part of his name with the revolutionary socialist author of the Communist Manifesto (right), has been selected to represent Brinnington and Stockport Central in the local elections. Cllr Wardlaw celebrated a landslide victory with 1,069 votes, taking 61 per cent of the vote share. He stood for election under the Green Party in 2019, but lost out to the former Labour candidate Kerry Waters, taking only 13 per cent of the vote share.

Charlotte Kates, a major figure in the pro-Palestine movement in colleges for over two decades, has been a constant presence at anti-Israel encampment at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The New Jersey native is the international coordinator of Samidoun Prisoners Solidarity Network, a group with ties to the PFLP that is listed in Israel as a terror group and banned in Germany as such. Kates was seen on Friday in Vancouver praising the terrorist attack by Hamas, which left 1,700 Israelis dead and sparked the war in Gaza, where 30,000 Palestinians have reportedly been killed. 'We say today, long live October 7!' Kates yelled outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, calling the attack a show of 'beautiful, brave and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people.' 'We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic and brave action on October 7,' she said. 'Long live October 7.' Kates went on defending terror groups, adding: 'It is long past time to delist Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations from Canada's so-called list of terrorist entities. 'Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Islamic Jihad is not a terrorist organization. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is not a terrorist organization. Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization.' She continued: 'These are resistance fighters. These are our heroes. These are those who are sacrificing so that we can live and speak and struggle and fight. These are the people whose blood is being shed to defend humanity and to defend the world.'

Words often fail my opponents, as they tend not to have much in the way of arguments. So in recent years, as I battle for facts and logic on anti-social media, my critics have taken to calling me 'old' in the hope of damaging me. A variation on this is to call me a 'Boomer', the American expression for those such as me born in the great Baby Bulge after World War Two (I was born in October 1951). They do this as if it were a brilliant point. They seem to think that because I am old, therefore I am stupid. They are not at all embarrassed about this, as they would be about equally open prejudice on the grounds of race or sex. My first response to this strange, rather stupid rudeness was to say to myself: 'Old? Me?'

Karl Marx was born in Trier, which was then part of the Kingdom of Prussia in the German Confederation. He spent his early years in Germany, studying law, philosophy, and economics. Marx was expelled from Prussia in 1845 in objection to his anti-royalist articles and settled in Brussels. After leaving Belgium in 1848 owing to political upheaval, Marx briefly lived in France before being expelled by the French government.

For anyone wanting Italian food in London today, there are hundreds of venues to choose from. From what was Little Italy in Clerkenwell to the hub of Italian venues in Soho, the capital is awash with outlets serving pasta, pizza and other dishes. The history of Italian food and culture in the capital stretches back to the 19th century, when immigrant ice cream sellers (bottom right, an ice cream seller in 1877) flogged their wares on poverty-stricken streets. London's oldest delicatessen, Terroni of Clerkenwell (top right), which opened during the reign of Queen Victoria, is still trading today. As is the iconic Soho establishment Bar Italia (left, and inset recently), which was set up in 1949 to serve good coffee and act as a social hub for the capital's Italian community.

According to polls, in a few months' time, Opposition Leader Sir Keir Starmer will face him in digs much more salubrious than his first London flat above a massage parlour. Sir Keir's life became more accessible and more liberal as he stepped up-sized across his beloved north London over the years. We take a look at the property moves Sir Keir has made in his lifetime from a bungalow in Woodchurch Kent to a four-bed terrace in Kentish Town.

The little six by six meter shop on Deptford's high street has attracted customers from all around the world in the effort to convert people to communism. However, the food itself is not cheap, with a menu named after communist and other prominent political and social figures, which would raise the price of kebab shop menu items. It comes after a Golden Chippy, which is just two miles down the road in Greenwich, became embroiled in a dispute over a Union Jack flag mural. After receiving squeals, Greenwich council ordered the establishment to be sacked, but the owner says he's eager to glue himself to it.

SARAH VINE: We're back to school this week, and we're chatting about lockdown. He talked about how much he loved it between bites of Costa cheese and ham toasties (favourite service station treat). Being far away from the world and able to control his own timetable, not having to wake up at the crack of dawn for school, giving an excuse not to say 'yes' to every party. It had been like a long vacation, and he had skipped it. Such thoughts are very normal among young adults like my son's - loved, safe, and generally a bit of a homebody. In fact, research has shown that 33% of 18- to 24-year-olds reported feeling better during lockout.

London is one of the world's largest cities and is so familiar to, well, just about everybody. Despite this, only a few people are aware of its secrets and hidden treasures. In the enthralling book I Never Knew That About London, author Christopher Winn lifts the veil. [The book] reveals the unearthed gems of legends, firsts, inventions, trips, and birthplaces that shaped the city's colorful, sometimes turbulent past.'

Lily Whitworth, who was convicted under her legal name William, wrote a troubling four-page manifesto and'schizophrenic rants' and planned to buy an AR-15. Timberview Middle School, where she attended from 2014 to 2016, was one of her goals, as well as Pine Creek High School in Colorado Springs. Last April, Whitworth was charged with two counts of attempted murder but pleaded guilty to second-degree assault under a plea bargain.

Today is Lennin's centennial, and it is a good time to reflect on the time he spent in London, working with his wife Nadya in down-at-heel rooms in Camden and Clerkenwell, planning with a rag-tag group of socialist exiles and intellectuals (most of whom feared because of their filthy personal habits) on how to defya's return home and, as a perpetrator and terrorist under surveillance heel (In reality, the Special Branch barely registered his presence) Lenin stayed in England for 16 years of exile from his homeland, a Russian fugitive from the Russian authorities who regarded him, correctly, as a dangerous tyrant with plans to overthrowrown the government. When his older brother was arrested for plotting to murder the Tsar, he had been radicalized as a youth. He and Nadya loved going to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park to listen to the free flow of views being publicly expressed, a far cry from the crackdown on disagreement and discussion that began once he ruled Russia. He also took a sixpenny bus ride to Highgate to stand in adoration beside the grave of a former political exile in London. Lenin's inspiration was Karl Marx, the maker of The Communist Manifesto. However, he departed from Marx's model, claiming that capitalism will eventually crumble under the weight of its own inertional economy, rather than by socialism. Lenin agreed in theory, but not wanting to change, was not ready to wait for history to do the job. The process could be a lengthy blast, one that he and his Bolsheviks were keen to provide. Lenin and Stalin, right now. Left: A Soviet propaganda poster. Inset image: His coffin being carried

The burial plots next to Karl Marx's grave in Highgate Cemetery are expected to cost more than £40,000. Since receiving £100,000 in National Lottery funds to support its conservation and landscaping, the north London graveyard, a popular tourist destination for the communist period, will erect new graves. The cemetery, which already has over 53,000 burial sites, will now have a prominent position near Marx's tomb - a spot that has long been coveted by communists.

STEPHEN GLOVER: Why has one drama on ITV generated so much outrage about mistreated sub-postmasters? No doubt that it's because Mr Bates Vs. The Post Office made people feel sorry for them. Human sympathies were sparked. However, it goes deeper than that. Although most of us - thank God - aren't persecuted by a brutal and faceless bureaucracy, we can relate to those Post Office workers' experiences. We get a glimpse of ourselves in their predicament.

STEPHEN GLOVER: Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, for the first time as tragedy, and the second as farce. The Tory party's disintegration that is before our eyes is a turbo-charged version of what happened in the 1990s. There is a common reason - the defenestration of a democratically elected party leader who had led the Conservatives to a humiliating win. Don't get me wrong. I'm not comparing Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson as political figures. Before being pushed out by her party, the former ruled for 11 years and transformed the United Kingdom. Boris lived for three gruesome years, during which he occasionally appeared at sea as he tried to cope with Covid's admittedly difficult problems. No one could possibly say that he made our world a better place, although he did vote against Brexit.

The Oxford English Dictionary was not created by a team of dons and professors, and it was actually the Wikipedia of its day, assembled by a huge army of ordinary people. Among a diverse cast of housewives, factory inspectors, engineers, social activists, and a slew of others, three murderers and at least four people of psychiatric institutions have been listed as contributors. Over a 36-year span from 1880 to 1915, James Murray, a generous and devoted family man who had left school at 14 with no formal training, arranged thousands of volunteers recruited globally by newspaper advertisements.

JENNY JOHNSTON (pictured): Dr. Charlotte Proudman (pictured): I ask what I think about her hair these days. I think it's a good look.' What do you think?' She claims she is right. If she'd ask a male journalist such as she does, she'd be tempted to enquire, although it was in jeopardy. He would surely sweat a little if she did. Dr Proudman is, after all, a feminist activist who enjoys calling people out (mainly for being sexist clots) for expressing derogatory language in daily micro-acts of violence.

TOM LEONARD: The city is suffering a crime epidemic so bad that even ice cream and laundry detergent are security-tagged in stores, and endless anti-business steps are driving down profits, but politicians seem more preoccupied by culture wars: woke causes and green problems, such as air pollution. Despite all the air quality issues, the authorities have only themselves to blame for the stench of contraband weed on its streets, a result of government's disastrous experiment with cannabis legalization, which has resulted in the proliferation of 1,400 illicit marijuana shops. And a city that has proclaimed itself as the ultimate temple of capitalism now has 23% of its office space vacant, a staggering figure that is likely to get worse after the introduction of a congestion fee of up to $23 (£17.60) for driving into midtown Manhattan. If officials are hoping that the fee would encourage commuters to leave their cars at home and take the subway, they might be disappointed.

Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto and invented the term capitalism in a multi-volume Das Kapital, a term that has never before had a pejorative tone. I would refrain from using it at all, since it brings up an old picture of a bloated plutocrat in a top hat and smoking a fat cigar. The free market's role would be more effective, particularly for proselytizers of this model: not only do people like markets, but the process in which we are able to choose, ourselves, and consequently, collectively, wield more power than any company.

Genevieve Morris and her partner Andrew Morris (pictured together in the bottom inset) had spent hours on Sunday preparing a traditional roast pork dinner at their Norwich, Norfolk, Norfolk home. When serving up, Mrs Morris, 52, said the outline of a 'unkempt' man in the sauce was revealed (pictured left) - complete with a beard and 'luscious' hair. The mother-of-five said she halted in her tracks and took a quick look at the saucy saviour before pouring the gravy into a dish and serving it on the dinner table. Though her son suggested Jim Morrison (pictured top inset), she said it seemed like Jesus (pictured right) or Karl Marx.

A professor at a New York City art college has earned the ire of social media after a video showed her screaming profane at pro life students protesting a protest at their school that she eventually discarded. Shellyne Rodriguez, 46, is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College in the Big Apple. According to her biography, she's also an artist whose work 'uses text, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects concerned with survival strategies against erasure and subjugation.' A video shared early in May by a pro-life organisation shows her protesting what appears to be an educational pro life exhibit at Hunter College in the City University of New York, which is taxpayer funded.

When moving to a new house, the majority of us would like to know our neighbors. Charlotte Goldthorpe's experience was a slightly different tale. In 2019, the fashion lecturer bought her cemetery lodge. When I tell people that I live in a graveyard, they always ask if it's haunted.' Well, no, it isn't 'The neighbours are quiet,' she says. 'I wouldn't want them to be squeamish, but I wouldn't want them to be noisy.'

The final words of well-known people are a point of fascination to fans of their respective lives in the hopes of receiving a last burst of wisdom from those who have lived a life less privileged. The words used in those days often reveal the individual's state of deterioration. However, there have been some notable examples of well-known celebrities' parting shots around the globe over the years. Here are a few of the best of the bunch.

A group of paramedics broke off their strike to come to the rescue of a motorcyclist who was killed from his bike while honking his horn in support. Across the UK, patients have been told to ask themselves 'am I going to die?' The number of emergency calls plummets and families are taking their loved ones to A&E in their own cares before calling 999 during today's ambulance strike. A group of paramedics and ambulance crews were stationed outside their station in Weymouth, Dorset, where they were welcomed by a crowd of people driving by.

According to the Health Service Journal and the BBC, the effects of the strike are already felt in south-west England, with West Midlands Ambulance Service seeing a 75% decrease in calls and demand down by a third. People have been told not to call 999 only in life-threatening situations and not to do anything'risky' like getting 'blind drunk'. Unions claim that workers will still respond to category one incidents, such as heart attacks, but that category two cases, including strokes, will be triaged before a decision is made on whether or not to send an ambulance. The Stroke Association said it was "highly concerned" for patients. Stephen Segasby, chief operating officer of North East Ambulance Service, says patients should ask themselves: 'Am I going to die?Do I feel like I am going to die?'