SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
THIS Monday May 1 the Marx Memorial Library will welcome those assembling for the May Day demonstration on Clerkenwell Green to a very special open day.
Join us at 37a Clerkenwell Green for feature tours, stalls of second-hand books on the history of the working-class movement and refreshments.
Tours cover the atmospheric office complete with original features where Lenin edited the Russian Bolshevik newspaper Iskra during a 13-month stint in London.
The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library
The newly catalogued News International Dispute Archive ensures the history of the Wapping dispute – and the solidarity it inspired – is preserved, accessible and alive for future generations, says MATT DUNNE
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



