By New Worker
correspondent
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| Andy Brooks |
KARL MARX spent most of his active life
in Britain working with Frederick Engels to build the international working
class movement and writing a corpus of books that provides the basis for
scientific socialism.
Marx died in
London on 14th March 1883 and his memory has been recalled ever since
by the working class movement throughout the world. And last Saturday his
immense contribution to the socialist cause was recalled at the annual
reception at the New Communist Party’s London centre in honour of the Marx and
the philosophical thinking that inspired the great revolutionary movements of
the 20th century.
The Communist Manifesto, written by Marx
and Engels in 1848, is as valid today as it was on the day that it was written
and the torch that it lit led to the raising of the Red Flag in Russia in
October 1917 and the establishment of the communist movement that ended the First
World War and defeated the Nazis in the Second.
The print shop was once again transformed for
the bar and buffet and comrades and friends gathered in the main meeting room
for the formal part of the celebrations that was opened by National chair Alex
Kempshall.
NCP leader Andy
Brooks, Dermot Hudson from the UK Korean Friendship Association and John McCleod
of the Socialist Labour Party all paid tribute to Marx, whose entire life was dedicated to the cause of the
emancipation of the working class.
No NCP event
ever ends without a collection and Daphne Liddle from the Politburo of the NCP
made a forthright appeal for money crucial to ensure the survival of the New Worker. The comrades responded by
putting £347 in the tin for the New
Worker fighting fund. Most comrades left at 10.30pm but, as usual, the
die-hards kept the bar open till well gone midnight...
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