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1 month

The Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School is saddened to hear of the passing of Sitaram Yechury. A great Marxist theoretician and friend of the MML, Sitaram gave the plenary lecture at MML’s 2018 international conference marking 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx.

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Today we welcomed a student group from the Philosopher College, Shaanxi Normal University in China undertaking a radical tour of London as part of their visit to the UK

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4 months

Today we’re raising our banner ⁦ @DurhamGala ⁩ Solidarity forever 🚩

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2 years

Celebrating #RedBooksDay2023 and the 175th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto! Here are just some of the many editions from around the world we hold in our collections #RedBooksDay

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3 years

Today on #HolocaustMemorialDay the Marx Memorial Library laid flowers at the Soviet War Memorial to remember 77 years since the Red Army liberated Auschwitz concentration camp

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1 year

Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School proud to be @DurhamGala Solidarity Forever ✊

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2 years

Happy birthday to us! 90 years ago today the Marx Commemoration Committee conference at @ConwayHall decided to found the Marx Memorial Library

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5 years

Remembering the 2500 British and Irish volunteers who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice fighting for democracy against fascism in the Spanish Civil War @IBMT_SCW annual commemoration

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7 years

Celebrating 170 years since the earth-shattering publication of Marx & Engels' The Communist Manifesto. This English edition dates from 1888, edited by Engels himself. Just one of many treasures @MarxLibrary

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Today marks 99 years since Lenin's death - here he is depicted on the Clerkenwell Green mural commemorating his time in exile in London, during which time he edited 'Iskra' from his office in our building!

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Happy birthday Walter Crane! As well as working with William Morris, Crane drew for 20th Century Press. His Cartoons for the Cause was printed by them in the building we occupy today

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4 years

Marx Memorial Library was founded 50 years after the death of Karl Marx - born OTD 5 May - in 1933 Our Grade II listed building is crammed full of Marx's works, texts from a Marxist perspective & archives documenting struggles inspired by his thinking

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6 years

Show your solidarity and support in the face of the recent act of vandalism against the grave of Karl Marx by joining us for our annual oration at the grave site on 17 March

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2 years

140 years since the death of Karl Marx 90 years since the foundation of Marx Memorial Library Support our work Join us! #900by90 #Marx140

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11 months

🌲 ⭐️ tree up! Seasons greetings from all @MarxLibrary

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4 years

Our Vice President @MPeakeOfficial on the vital work of @MarxLibrary @wcmlibrary & @M_Star_Online as resources for the labour movement & as sources of political education for the next generation ❤️🎬📰📚

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9 months

What a day #Lenin100 at the Marx Memorial Library with reflections on Lenin’s work on imperialism & state & revolution with a special exhibition on Lenin in London in our reading room

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1 year

In 1937 @CPBritain produced a series of pamphlets ‘the plain man’s guide to the coronation’, all held in our archives. They deal with the royals, war, empire & the huge cost of the coronation itself. #Coronation

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7 months

Our volunteers are hard at work preparing for this Saturday's book sale! We have loads of books on offer, with Marxist classics, labour movement histories and much more. Make sure you're here for a bargain! This Saturday, 13th April, 11-3

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1 year

A reminder to all our friends and neighbours that we’ll be celebrating our 90th 🥳 by inviting you all to a drop-in open day on Saturday 20 May 11-3 @Ec1Echo @StJohnsGate @IslingtonLHC @islingtongztte @Islingtonlibs @volaction_is @IslingtonWalks @IslingtonMayor

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2 years

Happy Birthday Paul Robeson! Born #otd 1898 We are proud to hold archives on Robeson including the papers of his biographer Marie Seton & gems like this signed programme. Plans are underway for a school workshop programme & exhibition autumn 2023 - @Weylandmck @baruch

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The wonderful Maxine Peake will join us next Thursday 13 June at @StJohnsGate for a special event on the anniversary of the 1381 Peasants Revolt! It’s a feee drop in event at 630pm - just turn up! All welcome!

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4 years

We’re just two followers off 7k! Please retweet’s and help us get there by the end of the day!

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1 year

Team MML ready to welcome you this sunny Saturday! 😎

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9 months

We welcomed 50 students from Beijing University this afternoon for special feature tours of the Lenin Room & our beautiful fresco 🏡

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4 years

Our contribution to today’s Cable Street anniversary special @M_Star_Online

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7 years

Remembering volunteer nurses from around the world who served in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 on #internationalnursesday #histnursing

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6 years

In memory of the heroes of the International Brigades @MarxLibrary @IBMT_SCW memorial

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4 years

✊🏅📚Can you help us reach 8000 followers this Friday? #marxism #library

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2 years

NEW DONATION: signed photograph of Lyudmila Pavlichenko Soviet sniper in the Red Army credited with 309 deaths 🚩

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4 years

Getting some treasures out for filming for Engels 200th documentary... ‘This cigar case belonged to Karl Marx and was a present from Marx to Engels. Engels gave it to John Burns in the early 90s on one of his visits to Regent’s Park’

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📢NEW SPEAKER announcement! We are delighted that Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad Indian author & journalist, author of 40 books will speak at our Lenin 100 online & on-site symposium 20 Jan 11am - 430pm Tickets here ..

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2 years

Happy birthday William Morris! Morris is a big figure in the history of our building, vouching for 20th century press which printed some of his writing. Today a banner by the Morris family is still on display in the library

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4 years

Join the Growing Marx Memorial Library @M_Star_Online - take out membership today

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2 years

Happy Birthday Antonio Gramsci! Here's just some of the books from our amazing Quintin Hoare Collection covering Gramsci in Italian, French, English and German, now catalogued and available in the library

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2 years

A BONFIRE OF WORKERS RIGHTS Join @MrBenSellers & @LauraPidcock for an urgent discussion next Thursday 27 October We are on the cusp of a severe attack on trade union freedoms this country has seen - how do we respond? ONSITE & ONLINE

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7 years

Photograph showing Republican soldier’s farewell to wife and child as he leaves for Aragon front #HeritageTreasures #VolunteersForLiberty #SpanishCivilWar

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5 years

International Brigader Charlie Hutchison was the only black British veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Today, joint with students from Newham Sixth Form College and members of the Hutchison family, @MarxLibrary commemorates Charlie's extraordinary life. #BlackHistoryMonth

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2 years

Wonderful to welcome the ambassador of Cuba, her Excellency Bábara Montalvo Álvarez, to the Marx Memorial Library this afternoon to discuss our education work and the importance of preserving socialist history in our archives ⁦ @alexgordon4me ⁩ ⁦ @EmbaCuba_UK ⁩

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Paul Robeson 'my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here, and have a part in it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?' @MarxLibrary you'll find archives of Robeson's biographer M Seaton

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4 years

There’s still time to join the hundred or so who have already registered for tomorrow evening’s online book launch and panel discussion with Prof Mary Davis, @selina_todd & Sonya Andermahr

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1 year

Battle of Cable Street 87 years ago #OnThisDay Many organisers feature in our Spanish Civil War Collection as volunteers fighting Fascism, including the only Black-British volunteer, Charlie Hutchison. #OTD #BlackHistoryMonth #CableStreet

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4 months

Our banner raised today at the ⁦ @IBMT_SCW ⁩ annual commemoration dedicated to the International Brigades & their fight against fascism

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7 years

Banner by Ed Hall on Islington Aid Spain inspired by Banners for Spain exhibition @MarxLibrary @IslingtonMuseum #SpanishCivilWar

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2 years

An amazing new item we've just received - scrapbook from Whitechapel resident, Annie Mills, of her involvement in the National Unemployed Workers Movement in the 30s, including sit down protests on Oxford Street and the Ritz. Fascinating to see such a personal take on history!

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4 years

MML Vice President @johnmcdonnellMP explains why the Library & Workers' School plays such a vital part in our movement & why you should BECOME A MEMBER to support our ongoing work at this critical time for just £25 per year

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‘I’m half black. I grew up in the National Children’s Home. Fascism meant hunger and war’ - Charlie Hutchison on his motivations for joining the international brigades

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1 year

Our banner proudly on display @IBMT_SCW memorial this afternoon

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7 years

Cataloguing Spanish Civil War press @MarxLibrary for #VolunteersForLiberty project - online catalogue to be launched this Spring - ¡Viva La Republica!

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2 years

Thanks to all 90 people who came to our booksale on Saturday - an appropriate number for our 90th anniversary!

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2 years

We still have some of our limited edition 90th anniversary badges are for sale but they're selling fast! Buy one on our website while you still can!

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4 years

You can now watch the recording of Sunday's Annual Marx Oration on our website here:

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2 years

Our volunteers are hard at work preparing for this Saturday's book sale!

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7 years

1936-8 volunteer nurses from across globe travelled 2 Spain 2 assist Republicans against far-right coup in #SpanishCivilWar - pics @MarxLibrary thanks to Cataloguing & Digitisation project w/ @IBMT_SCW funded by @UkNatArchives Cataloguing Grants Scheme #VolunteersForLiberty

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2 years

BOOK SALE 18 March 11-3 Our famous second hand sales are back - join us for 2023’s first instalment and get your hands on Marxist classics, Labour movement histories and rare pamphlets. First come first served!

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6 years

We are delighted to announce that actor, director and writer Maxine Peake was nominated as our new Vice-President at our AGM last month @MPeakeOfficial

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4 years

Celebrating the completion of building works at Marx House with Alf and Spencer our contractors plus Alex, our Chair, Melanie, our Administrator, and Meirian our Librarian THANK YOU to everyone who helped with our flood fundraiser & made this all possible!

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1 year

Tours underway! Pop in and take a look at the room where Lenin worked in exile in London!

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2 years

The Marx Memorial Library’s Ambitious 90th Anniversary Programme @M_Star_Online

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8 months

Did you know we offer guided tours of our historic building - jam-packed with displays & unique artefacts & the opportunity to visit Lenin’s office - every Monday at midday - book here

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5 years

Great to catch up with our Vice President Maxine Peake @MPeakeOfficial this morning!

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6 months

#VictoryDay #Victory79 #SovietUnion #ClerkenwellGreen #NoPasaran Marking Victory Day with this wonderful image of Marx House 📸

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4 years

At 7pm we'll be LIVE ON FACEBOOK with John McDonnell MP discussing the potential for a more egalitarian post-virus economy. Don't miss our keynote lecture!

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2 years

Left Book Club old and new! Our new copies are now catalogued and on the shelves ready to view, alongside our original run going back to the '30s

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6 years

Launch of archive catalogue of largest International Brigade collection in UK @MarxLibrary funded by @UkNatArchives cataloguing grants scheme joint with @IBMT_SCW 24 July 7pm

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4 years

♥️🏅📚📖New storage solutions at Marx Memorial Library!

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6 years

Additions to our @M_Star_Online press photo library arrived yesterday. We hold thousands of photographs and are digitising them for exhibition online here

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3 years

Great to welcome ⁦ @sarahwoolley01 ⁩ to the Library to discuss our education work & look at some treasures from our historic collections including our ⁦ @M_Star_Online ⁩ photo archive file on the food industry!

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6 years

Setting up for undergraduate workshop on Britain and the Spanish Civil War showcasing archives of volunteers in our #spanishcollection incl Mary Slater, one of the nurses who went to Spain

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4 years

This banner - listing the volunteers from Hammersmith who joined the international brigades to fight fascism in Spain during the Civil War 1936-9 - was created by artist Laurence Bradshaw Find out more on our new exhibition page #MuseumsFromHome

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3 years

Dear friends, we are thrilled to be reopening our doors this week to welcome back readers and researchers! Contact us at info @marx -memorial-library.gov.uk to make an appointment to book your spot! Plan your visit by exploring our superb collections here:

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2 years

An engaging discussion tonight thanks to our speakers @LauraPidcock & @MrBenSellers on draconian attacks on trade union freedoms spanning decades, a growing ‘palpable sense of class consciousness’ today & the importance of coordinated organisation & action across our movement

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6 months

We're really excited to commemorate the Miner's Strike next month with these 2 events on the legacy of the strike! With speakers from Women Against Pit Closures, NUM archives and MML #minersstrike #exploreyourarchives

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3 years

Just to note that today we passed a milestone of 9000 followers! Thanks to all our Twitter followers for their engagement. We are here for you #solidarity #socialism #archives

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7 months

Really great conversations about why we should archive the movement at the @yclbritain Harry Pollitt this afternoon, thanks everyone who came!

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7 years

Why have you come to Mourmansk? Poster addressing British White Army soldiers sent to crush the revolution in Russia 1/2

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1 year

It was a privilege to show Eric Campos the General Secretary of @Cutchile the Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School - incl Lenin’s office & some of our archives on Chile & solidarity campaigns in this country - with Chair @alexgordon4me

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8 years

Remembering the Fife Volunteers who fought fascism in Spain with Fife TUC & @IBMT_SCW

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2 years

Today we packed up CLR James first edition of Minty Alley on loan to @Tate for the forthcoming exhibition ‘African Diaspora in London’

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2 years

Come check out our stall selling radical second hand pamphlets @BarbicanCentre for their Quiet Revolutions celebration of radical book selling

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8 years

Looking back: The Spanish civil war

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7 years

Remembering the 2500 British volunteers who fought fascism in Spain with @IBMT_SCW at London's Southbank

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2 years

Happy International Workers’ Day from @MarxLibrary Join us for our first open day in three years today 1030am-2pm Our stalls are CASH ONLY

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3 years

Happy 203rd birthday to Karl Marx, from the Marx Memorial Library and Worker's School! If you want to know why Marx's writings have been continually revisited for 200 years, visit our website for details of our courses, collections and memberships!

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What a fantastic storytelling session this morning - we learnt all about the basque children refugees from the Spanish Civil War! Thanks @IslingtonMuseum @IBMT_SCW

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3 years

On our annual open day on 1 May - International Workers’ Day - we can’t wait to hear from guest speakers: * Mick Lynch @RMTunion General Secretary * Bernadette Keaveney from the National Assembly of Women Join us 10:30am-2pm for feature tours, stalls & displays

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2 years

Limited Edition 90th anniversary enamel badges from the Marx Memorial Library Only 50 available in each design! Just £6 The ideal picket line accessory ✊

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7 years

Cataloguing papers of international brigader John Peet came across this gem - photograph of Food For Spain van in the Isle of Wight Feb 1939. Can you spot the furry helpers? #VolunteersForLiberty - @IBMT_SCW & @UkNatArchives project

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🐣 This Easter closure we’ve been hanging some of our stunning Soviet poster art for the Spring Take a look on one of our regular Monday tours ⏰ 🎟️

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6 years

Full house welcoming our new Vice President @johnmcdonnellMP with discussion on the Labour Party’s economic programme

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7 years

Stamps from our Spanish Collection - raising funds for the 4000 Basque refugee children who fled fascist bombs and arrived on British shores May 1937 #VolunteersforLiberty

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7 years

Refugee children from the Spanish Civil War staying at Penstone House, Lancing wish Happy Birthday to Mr Omegna who ran the ‘colony’ in Worthing #librarytreasures @IBMT_SCW

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1 year

On Saturday 22 July we marked 85 years since the Spanish Civil War’s Battle of the Ebro with @IBMT_SCW An original plaque in our memorial garden lists the 90 British and Irish dead We were joined by Dolores Long @RichardBaxell & Maxine Peake ¡No Pasarán!

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This week we received a generous donation of 48 issues of this radical newspaper Pére Duchêne produced during the Paris Commune March - May 1871 What a fantastic addition to our collection and what a beautiful masthead!

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Wishing all MML members, friends and supporters a very happy and healthy 2021...📕🌹 What better way to start the year than enrol on one of our two online courses starting next week *CAPITALISM, CRISIS & IMPERIALISM *MAKING OUR OWN HISTORY Further info

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2 years

Wonderful to be able to retrieve our newly boxed newspaper volumes for readers today - what a difference an archive box makes!

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6 years

Last night we launched our Spanish Collection archive catalogue with support from @IBMT_SCW and funding from @UkNatArchives . Our world class archives on the international brigades and aid spain movement are searchable here

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Today we close to the public for Christmas reopening 10 Jan We’d like to wish all our friends and supporters a happy festive period and send solidarity greetings to our trade union affiliates @CWUnews @RMTunion @ucu @NEUnion @ASLEFunion @fbunational @unitetheunion @BFAWUOfficial

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