Karl Marx's London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack

Friends of Highgate Cemetery calls attack a ‘particularly inarticulate form of political comment’

The tomb of Karl Marx at London’s Highgate cemetery has been vandalised in a targeted attack that means the Grade I monument will “never be the same again”.

The suspected vandal damaged a marble plaque which was taken from Marx’s original 1881 grave stone and incorporated into the 1954 Grade I listed monument.

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