On seeing the front cover of Labour's manifesto, a few thoughts come to mind. First, no Gordon Brown (surprise, surprise). Even Blair didn't make it on to the front of the party's 2005 manifesto, so ...

It was a 23-page ticking bomb of a document, penned by an odd couple of European exiles, virtually unnoticed upon its publication, that would inspire some of the bloodiest dictatorships of the 20th… ...

They cover the usual topics of managing one's career, becoming a better leader and digital disruption. One important book was missing from the list. It is the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.

While studying in Japan between 1915 and 1919, Chen Wangdao (1891-1977) came across communist ideas via Japanese translations of The Communist Manifesto, one of the most influential political ...