Photographs from the scene showed chips and scratches to the marble gravestone, damaging epitaphs to Marx, his wife and grandson. "Karl Marx's memorial has been vandalised!" The German revolutionary socialist, author of "Das Kapital" and co-author of the "Communist Manifesto," lived in London from 1849 until his death in 1883. His memorial has been attacked in the past with paint, and in 1970 an attempt was made to destroy it with a bomb. The incident was the latest attack on memorials of historic interest in London in recent weeks.

Source: bd News24 February 05, 2019 15:56 UTC