The reburials were the precursor to the construction of the Karl Marx tomb, designed by Laurence Bradshaw and funded by the Communist Party of Great Britain. The reburials took place during the night of 26/27 November 1954. In 1954, the Marx Memorial Committee, with the agreement of Frederick and Robert-Jean Longuet, Marx's great-grandsons, applied to the Home Office for an exhumation licence allowing the bodies of Marx, his wife, other family members and the Marxs’ housekeeper Helene Demuth to be disinterred and reburied at a new site, some 100 yards from the original graves. But for this secresy and haste, a great popular demonstration would undoubtedly have been held over his grave'. Next day the correction came from Paris and when his friends and followers hastened to his house in Haverstock Hill, to learn the time and place of burial, they learned that he was already in the cold ground. his death was not announced for two days, and then as having taken place at Paris. A writer in The Graphic noted that, 'By a strange blunder. A contemporary newspaper account claims that 25 to 30 relatives and friends attended the funeral. They were, apart from Engels, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, Paul Lafargue, Charles Longuet, Helene Demuth, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Gottlieb Lemke, Frederich Lessner, Georg Lochner, Sir Ray Lankester, Carl Schorlemmer and Ernest Radford. Īt least thirteen named individuals attended the funeral. He was buried on the following Saturday, at Highgate Cemetery, in the grave prepared for his wife who had died eighteen months previously.

Marx died on the afternoon of 14 March 1883 from a combination of bronchitis and pleurisy, exacerbated by an abscess on his lung. Throughout his time in London, Marx lived in financially straitened circumstances and was heavily reliant on the support of his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels. During this period, Marx wrote some of his most notable works, including The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon and Das Kapital.

Living originally in Soho, he moved in 1875 to Maitland Park Road, in the north London area of Belsize Park, and this remained his home until his death in 1883.

Marx moved to London as a political exile in June 1849. It is a Grade I listed structure, the highest listing reserved for buildings and structures of 'exceptional interest'. It has also been a target for Marx's opponents, suffering vandalism, and two bomb attacks in the 1970s. Since its construction, the tomb has become a place of pilgrimage for followers of Marxist theory. The pedestal is inscribed with quotes from Marx's works including, on the front, the final words of The Communist Manifesto, ' Workers of all lands unite'. The tomb consists of a large bust of Marx in bronze set on a marble pedestal. The tomb was designed by Laurence Bradshaw and was unveiled in 1956, in a ceremony led by Harry Pollitt, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, which funded the memorial. Originally buried in a different part of the Eastern cemetery, the bodies were disinterred and reburied at their present location in 1954. It commemorates the burial sites of Marx, of his wife, Jenny von Westphalen, and other members of his family. The Tomb of Karl Marx stands in the Eastern cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, North London, England.

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