{"id":21686,"date":"2019-02-15T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21686"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:31:45","slug":"karl-marxs-london-grave-vandalised-in-suspected-hammer-attack-a-particularly-inarticulate-form-of-political-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21686","title":{"rendered":"Karl Marx&#8217;s London grave vandalised in suspected hammer attack: A \u2018particularly inarticulate form of political comment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/guardian_website150219.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21687\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/guardian_website150219.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a>Friends of Highgate Cemetery called a recent attack on Karl Marx\u2019s London grave a \u2018particularly inarticulate form of political comment\u2019.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The tomb of Karl Marx at London\u2019s Highgate cemetery has been vandalised in a targeted attack that means the Grade I-listed monument will \u2018never be the same again\u2019. The suspected vandal damaged a marble plaque which was taken from Marx\u2019s original 1883 gravestone and incorporated into the 1954 monument.\u00a0 Images of the defaced memorial\u2026 show what appears to be damage done by a hammer to the lettering of Marx\u2019s name and the marble on which it is mounted.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Dungavell, the chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, condemned the attack as\u00a0 \u2018an appalling thing to do\u2019 and a \u2018particularly inarticulate form of political comment\u2019, warning that the tomb would be permanently scarred.\u00a0 The police were called to the scene on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 Dungavell said no other graves at the cemetery had been damaged in the attack. Speaking to the Guardian he said: \u2018We think it was deliberately targeted against Karl Marx. It was not random. You can see from the photograph that the person has really done their best to obliterate Karl Marx\u2019s name\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In a statement the Metropolitan Police said: \u2018Initial enquiries have been completed and at this stage the investigation has been closed\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when the incident occurred\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s author and poet, Michael Rosen, suggested launching an appeal for the cost of repair \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/feb\/05\/karl-marx-london-grave-vandalised-suspected-hammer-attack-highgate-cemetery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of Highgate Cemetery called a recent attack on Karl Marx\u2019s London grave a \u2018particularly inarticulate form of political comment\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21688,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions\/21688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}