Class and the Making of the Modern World Dr Laura Schwartz Associate Professor of Modern British History

‘It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.’ Karl Marx, Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)  

‘The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles’. Karl Marx and FriedrichEngels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

'Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.’ Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire (1852)

Deliveroo workers’ strike (2016) London School of Economics cleaners' strike (2017)