Friedrich Engels
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Vanessa Kirby: ‘I wanted to feel like I’d lost a limb, like someone was missing’
- Film
- January 9, 2021, 05:30
This month all eyes should be on Vanessa Kirby, as Netflix unveils her extraordinary turn at the centre of Pieces of a Woman, which is due to premiere(...)

Goodbye to all that creative destruction
- Innovation
- December 18, 2019, 13:48
One Financial Times article that caught my eye this week concerned the success of Meituan Dianping, whose “Everything app” enables Chinese consumers t(...)

Of dogs and dogma – Frank McNally on Orwell, Marx and history repeating itself
- Opinion
- August 15, 2019, 20:00
Dipping into George Orwell’s Diaries for August 1939 this week, I was briefly confused by his apparent references to Karl Marx. It wouldn’t be (...)

The Young Karl Marx: Birth of a working-class superhero
- Film
- May 4, 2018, 05:00
Released to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, the new film from Raoul Peck is no mere biopic, but a superhero-style origin sto(...)

Karl Marx’s insights retain their clout and relevance
- Europe
- May 3, 2018, 01:00
His view over Brussels’s magnificent Grand Place from La Maison du Cygne was a vivid architectural representation of what he was trying to write. Hist(...)

Florence Kelley: the Quaker who fought for US workers’ rights
- Irish News
- July 19, 2017, 09:52
Florence Kelley’s pioneering work in improving working conditions for women and children in the industrial heartlands of the United States will be hig(...)

Palace of kaisers and kings rises again as Berlin tries to look to future
- Europe
- February 24, 2016, 01:00
Cycling through central Berlin these days is a hazardous business. East of the Brandenburg Gate, what was once the Unter den Linden boulevard is now a(...)

Campaign by Sanders shows socialism is no longer a dirty word in US politics
- US
- October 24, 2015, 05:00
When German social theorist Werner Sombart asked in his 1906 essay Why Is There No Socialism in America?, he reached the same conclusion his compatrio(...)

Author Chris Mullin to speak on Birmingham Six in Cork
- Heritage
- July 2, 2015, 17:44
Former British Labour Party MP and author Chris Mullin will speak about the lessons that can be learned from the case of the Birmingham Six at a summe(...)

Mrs Engels author Gavin McCrea on the Irish sisters who inspired Engels and Marx
- Books
- May 27, 2015, 10:41
In 1842, at the age of 22, Friedrich Engels was sent to Manchester to do a two-year internship at his father’s cotton mill. As intended, this trainin(...)