 This eye-smacking mural takes up much of a wall in the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell. I popped in this week to give a talk, I'd never been to the first floor of the library. And there I was confronted by the handiwork of the Red Earl. And if you think the mural has a touch (OK, just a touch) of Diego Rivera about it, you're right. The artist, Jack Hastings - to be more precise, Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, or Viscount Hastings - had been a pupil of Rivera. And in 1935 he executed this mural in what was then Marx House, the home of the Workers' School, a wonderful eighteenth century building fronting Clerkenwell Green. He gave the mural the snappy title 'The Worker of the Future Clearing away the Chaos of Capitalism'. You will spot Marx and Lenin (happily, no Stalin) along with various figures from the history of the British labour movement in a supporting role.
It seems that the worker of the future is clearing away the Houses of Parliament along with all the other detritus of global capitalism.  Hasting was educated at Eton and Christ Curch and while at Oxford played in the Varsity polo team. In 1939, he became the 16th Earl of Huntingdon. He sat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords and became a junior minister in the post-war Attlee government. He also taught art and for much of the 1950s was chairman of the Society of Mural Painters. The Red Earl was the title of a biography written by his daughter. I can't help wondering who was the model for the starring role of the worker of the future.  The mural was 'lost' for decades - concealed behind shelving and hidden from view. It was rediscovered in 1991, a story told in this documentary 'Marx on the Wall'.
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