The Karl Marx Walking Tour features in this work by Gilbert and George
from their recent New Normal Exhibition at the White Cube Gallery, London.
The Karl Marx Walking Tour starts at 11am every Sunday
Meeting in front of the Criterion Theatre/Eros, Piccadilly Circus.
This tour lasts 2-2.5 hrs
Standard tickets for the Sunday tour cost £15 (+ eventbrite booking fee) a limited number of concessionary price tickets are available at £10 for those on a low income.
CASH IS ACCEPTED PLEASE EMAIL OR TEXT TO BOOK A PLACE
Any questions?
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Or call 07722 523629
Marx in London
Every Sunday
11am - 1pm (approx) Piccadilly Circus
Please note there will be no tour on Sunday 15 Sept.
NEW Karl Marx Treasures from the last 170 years
Original documents, artefacts and posters by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and others for sale.
Many original 1st editions from 1853 onwards!
Our Guides
Heiko Khoo
Heiko Khoo has studied Marxist ideas for 33 years. He completed his PhD in 2018. It examines China's social system and political economy using Marxist theory. You can download it here. Heiko is well-known orator at London's Speakers' Corner and he produces the weekly Speakers' Corner radio show for Resonance fm. He previously ran walking tours in Berlin specialising in the rise and fall of East Germany and has a detailed knowledge of East European and Soviet jokes, which he uses to enhance the Karl Marx story and to help explain the fate of Communist states. Heiko helped the German Historical Museum in Berlin to prepare a major exhibition Karl Marx and Capitalism in the spring of 2022.
Heiko was the lead author and researcher for the guide book Karl Marx in London published 2018 by the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth.
Mark Bygrave
Mark left school at 15 to work in the construction industry. He discovered Marx's ideas when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, riots shook London and the Cold War was still hot.
School students from Bishops Stortford High School on the Karl Marx walking tour with Mark Sept 2022
Mark led tenants' campaigns, threw himself into solidarity work in the1984-5 miners strike and stood on the front line of the Poll Tax protests that brought down the Iron Lady. Mark's experience of the life and struggles of the working class in Britain and internationally will remind you why Marx said that the workers are the agents of revolution.
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Karl Marx
The Walking Tour
Karl Marx was the most influential thinker of modern times. His epic life story combines comedy and tragedy, love and hate, hope and despair. This set the backdrop to an intellectual expedition that sought to unravel the mysteries of history, politics, economics and philosophy.
Marx’s work inspired protests and strikes, rebellions and revolutions, terrorism and war, struggles for freedom, democracy and liberty, as well as regimes of tyrannical repression.
Prof. Lea Ypi's Undergraduate students from the London School of Economics on the Karl Marx Walking tour November 2022
We walk you through the story of his life in London and explain his ideas and their influence on human destiny. We take you to the places in and around Soho where Marx lived and worked, show you traces of the London he knew, and tell the extraordinary tale of this man who would change the world.
Our guides are experts in the field and have spent decades studying and unravelling the complexities of the life and ideas of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and their followers. On the walking tour we combine this knowledge with the didactic and entertaining style of a storyteller. We explain the intellectual influences of the time and delve into the secrets of Karl Marx's ideas. We explain the significance of the 1848 revolutions, and the dramatic and bloody events of the 1871 Paris Commune. We describe the life of struggle and hardship of an extraordinary community of European revolutionaries who made Victorian London their home. This circle of refugees developed ideas, organisations and political movements which would shape world politics in the twentieth century.
The weekly Karl Marx walking tour 2 Oct 2022
This walking tour will help you to explain and understand how the modern world and its economic, social and political conflicts came about. The tour does not assume any previous knowledge and it is pitched at a level that will leave everyone from the complete novice to the seasoned expert satisfied. We welcome schools and universities, and provide specialist tours for visiting scholars, media outlets and embassies, etc.
Join us as we walk you through the life, times and ideas of Karl Marx.
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The Marx Walking Tour features in
Karl Marx The Activist 2023
A film in English, Hebrew and Arabic
Click on the image below to see the trailer
MARX WALKS IN THE NEWS
Interview on RT about the Karl Marx walking tour on George Galloway's Sputnik show click the image below to watch provided that you live in a country where you are allowed to look at Russia Today's archives that is!
The Karl Marx walking tour featured on the Robert Elms show on BBC radio London 2nd August 2017 Listen to the broadcast here.
In this 30 minute show made for the BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme, Robin Aitken, a self-confessed conservative journalist, takes a journey to discover Karl Marx and Marxism for himself. Our Marx tour acts as the backdrop for Aitken's voyage. Listen to the broadcast here.
Click the image above for South London Press video on the Karl Marx Walking tour
Harpers Magazine City of Gilt Searching for the town I used to love by Tanya Gold
In search of Karl Marx in London
Radio show about Marx Walks on Deutschlandfunk
Chinese Central Television live streamed and translated 2 sections of the Karl Marx Walking tour on 5th May 2018 for the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth click on the image below to view it
Marx Walks was featured in this Chinese Central Television documentary to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth