TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
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
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
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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From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP
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
