PETER MARSHALL/DEMOTIX/CORBIS Class War activist Lisa McKenzie leads a protest at the Museum back in August

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Class War activists Lisa McKenzie, Jane Nicholl and Murray Healy made the baffling request after being given a guided tour round the tourist attraction a month ago. They are expected to join hundreds of protesters outside the museum in east London this afternoon to accuse the owners of the "glorification of sexual violence." During their visit the trio spouted praise for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and demanded one of the floors of the museum be devoted to his brand of socialism with propaganda against bankers and the wealthy elite. They wanted their exhibition to replace a recreation of the Ripper's sitting room which contains a copy of the famous 'From Hell" letter, medical books from the time and an original drawing by one time suspect Walter Sickert above the fireplace. Flame-haired firebrand McKenzie, 47, also warned the museum that having a top and hat and cape hung on a peg in the room would "cause offence to every victim of sexual abuse".

STEVE FINN Activists wanted their anti-capitalist exhibition to to replace a recreation of the Ripper’s lounge

Spokesman Joshua Walker told the Sunday Express: "We invited Lisa, Jane and Murray down here to show them ourselves at how sympathetic it was to the Ripper's victims. "We felt that it was very powerful to open a museum which for the first time examines the turbulent history of the East End from the perspective of the most oppressed group in Victorian London, the women who were poor and under privileged, who lived from hand to mouth and were often forced into prostitution. "But they came here to be offended and to pick faults in things, even though one of them, Murray, was actually wearing a T-Shirt on with the slogan 'Poor is the new Queer'. "They only really liked one part of the museum, the top floor, which recreates the kind of down-at-heel living quarters some of the victims would have had. "It is designed to be quite authentic, thread-bare with a rusty iron bed and straw-stuffed mattress.

GETTY Class War activists are said to be loyal to new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

"On the walls are the stories of the victims themselves at which they got quite teary. "I thought they may object to the mock-up of a Victorian police station on the third floor - given their views on the law - but they had no problem with it.

They wanted the Ripper's sitting room removed and replaced by an exhibition space promoting socialism, anti-capitalism and rallying against the banks Joshua Walker, spokesman

"In fact it was the floor below they actually hated which was the Ripper's sitting room where Jack might have lived and planned his crimes. "It's a nicely decorated room with a Victorian sitting chair, fireplace and writing table as well as a gramophone but Lisa remarked that the top hat and cloak we'd hung on a peg would cause offence to every victim of sexual abuse. "She said it quite matter of fact but we have had victims of rape and sexual assault here already and they've had nothing but praise. "Not that they'd admit now, but all three were very generous about Jeremy Corbyn and were supporting him. Now he's come into the centre more, they are not so keen." McKenzie and Nicholl are both members of Class War's Women's Death Brigade who will be leading today's protest. Mr Walker added: "They wanted the Ripper's sitting room removed and replaced by an exhibition space promoting socialism, anti-capitalism and rallying against the banks. "That was a daft idea frankly for a Jack the Ripper Museum and we said no." The Museum was pelted with white paint at 2.35am on Wednesday by a lone protester. He was captured on CCTV footage, which is now being analysed by the Metropolitan Police.

GETTY An artists recreation of one of the Ripper's infamous attacks

On the Class War Facebook page, the group posted a picture of the damage with the caption: "Tsk, looks like that naughty paint fairy has visited the Ripper Museum again." The activists, who attacked the Cereal Killer Caf=E9 in nearby Brick Lane a week ago, have warned of fresh protests this afternoon in what they have called the new "battle of Cable Street" outside the museum. Citing the East End's infamous stand against Oswald Moseley's Black Shirts, they plan to confront any "Hipsters" who stand in their way. McKenzie, a research fellow at the London School of Economics, has become the face of Class War, stirring up protesters with a megaphone and appearing on the BBC's Newsnight to defend last Saturday's attack on the Cereal Killer Caf=E9. However, privately she has told friends that she is starting to crack under the stress of being in the limelight. She told one: "I feel like retreating into my ivory tower and never leaving."

PA Anarchists were allegedly to blame for the attack on the Cereal Killer cafe in East London last week