The Grade I listed memorial – featuring a brooding bronze bust resting on a rectangular marble plinth inscribed with “workers of all lands unite” – was installed in 1956 by the Communist Party although its sculptor Laurence Bradshaw did not sign the finished work. Since then, the monument has become a familiar pilgrimage site for Marxists and socialist politicians, as well as a target for attacks and demonstrations, including damage from homemade bomb explosions in the 1970s.
"Someone tried to blow it up in 1970. 'The explosion cracked a plaque at the base of a 10ft-high statue of Marx at London's Highgate Cemetery.' (Marx Tomb Damaged by Time Bomb, Daily Mirror, January 19, 1970, p. 2.)" – Anthony Hogg
"I think the 'guy' in question is actually Tony Hill. But David can clarify that one." – Anthony Hogg
Let's be absolutely clear about what Hogg is suggesting, because it really does take the cake.
Hogg actually believes the person responsible for planting a bomb that damaged the bust of Karl Marx at Highgate cemetery is Tony Hill who, at that time, was also David Farrant's "landlord." Farrant was residing in Hill's coal bunker beneath the first floor flat where Hill lived in Archway Road.
Given that Farrant had executed a "ghost" hoax in the early months of 1970 with both Hill's knowledge and assistance, we very much suspect he would have known about any plans to bomb the Karl Marx memorial in Highgate's East Cemetery. The whole idea is preposterous and, of course, to allege it in public, as has Anthony Hogg, is libellous in the extreme. But that is Hogg all over.
Hogg will say anything to suit his own agenda, even if it means publishing gross defamation about someone he has never met or had contact with, and doesn't know anything about, apart from what Farrant has told him, which will be a tissue of lies. How can anyone believe anything Hogg says?
Given that Farrant had executed a "ghost" hoax in the early months of 1970 with both Hill's knowledge and assistance, we very much suspect he would have known about any plans to bomb the Karl Marx memorial in Highgate's East Cemetery. The whole idea is preposterous and, of course, to allege it in public, as has Anthony Hogg, is libellous in the extreme. But that is Hogg all over.
Hogg will say anything to suit his own agenda, even if it means publishing gross defamation about someone he has never met or had contact with, and doesn't know anything about, apart from what Farrant has told him, which will be a tissue of lies. How can anyone believe anything Hogg says?
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