Marx & Engels in Manchester pub tour: Drinkers of the World Unite

Join reformed Trot Ed Glinert in raising a glass to the creators of a political system that bossed half the world in the 20th century.

Drinkers of the world unite! We will sup a few pints as we follow in the footsteps of Karl Marx, inventor of that phenomenally popular political system – communism – and Friedrich Engels, the German cotton merchant and secret revolutionary who spent his working life in Manchester making capitalist money so that he could live the life of a bourgeois, riding with the Cheshire Hunt at the weekends, but researching social conditions in the Manchester slums to write one of the most influential political books ever written, The Condition of the Working Class in England, in 1845.
Hugely entertaining, informative and intriguing, this tour has been devised by Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s The Manchester Compendium and many other tomes published by the cream of British publishers, who has been hacking away at the coal-face of local politics for 35 years, including a stint at the heart of one of the most sinister Trotskyite cells Hulme ever witnessed.

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• This Friday, 13th June, 06:00 pm, Castlefield Pub Walk: Romans, Religious Relics, Railways & Real Ale in Manchester
• This Saturday, 14th June, 02:00 pm, Emmeline Pankhurst Memorial Tour (Anniversary of Her Death) in Manchester
• This Sunday, 15th June, 11:00 am, The 1996 Manchester Bomb, 29 Years On. Ed Glinert's expert tour in Manchester

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