Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
The Marx Memorial Library’s ambitious 90th year programme
Director MEIRIAN JUMP looks at the year ahead for a unique left-wing resource for workers’ education in the heart of London
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
THIS year marks 90 years since the foundation of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers School (MML), a unique socialist library, research and education centre based in London’s historic Clerkenwell.
The MML was established in 1933 by trade unionists, socialists and communists in reaction to the rise of fascism in Europe, commemorating the anniversary of Marx’s death in 1883.
Our internationally significant archive collections on socialist history — including Hands off Russia campaigns, the Spanish civil war and the 1984-5 miners’ strike — still inspire and inform today.
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The time is now to start reimagining a bigger future for the library, writes MEIRIAN JUMP
The Marx Memorial Library is a treasure trove of labour movement archives and tradition of working-class education, writes MEIRIAN JUMP
Looking ahead to the centenary in 2033, MML director MEIRIAN JUMP reports on the ambitious plans to renovate and open up the historic institution as a ‘shopfront for Marxism’ in the heart of central London
MEIRIAN JUMP reports from the weekend’s international conference to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Marx Memorial Library and Workers School
