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Starts Thursday, 5 June 2025 - 7:00pm
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Starts Saturday, 7 June 2025 - 11:00am
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Starts Thursday, 12 June 2025 - 7:00pm
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Starts Thursday, 17 July 2025 - 5:30pm

Past Events

An opportunity to catch up on what we've been up to

26 April 2025

A celebration of the work of historian Professor John Foster and his contribution to the the work of the Marx Memorial Library as a trustee, secretary, and as secretary of the education committee. Speakers include Johnathan White, Marj Mayo, Harsev Bains and Mary Davis

27 March 2025

Drawing on key themes raised by Professor Marjorie Mayo’s new study ‘Decolonising Community Education and Development: understanding the past, learning for the future’, this panel brings together educators from schools, higher education, the labour movement and the heritage sector.  Panellists will examine how heritage collections documenting challenges to imperialism and exploitation through time - at the MML and elsewhere - can be mobilized today to expose hidden histories, contest existing narratives and enrich learning for diverse groups. Dr Tanveer Ahmed is Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race at Central Saint Martins, UAL Caroline Kamana is Director of Anti-Apartheid Legacy: Centre for Memory and Learning Alan Kunna is a History teacher and a member of the Marx Memorial Library's Outreach and Engagement Sub-Committee Professor Marjorie Mayo is author of ‘Decolonising Community Education and Development: understanding the past, learning for the future’ and trustee of the Marx Memorial Library

 

28 November 2024

Gawain Little, general secretary of the GFTU, chairs a discussion on the new challenges facing Britain’s trade union movement with Fran Heathcote (general secretary PCS), Alex Gordon (RMT President) and Sarah Woolley (general secretary BFAWU). This includes the challenges of maintaining and enhancing members' pay, terms, conditions and legal rights and freedoms under the current government and more strategic issue of how collectively to create a movement in communities and workplaces that can combat the arguments of the far right and redevelop wider class solidarity.

23 November 2024

Special lecture from Ofer Cassif, member of the Israeli Knesset for the Hadash party. This onsite and online lecture is free-of-charge, but please register in advance using the link below. Dr. Ofer Cassif is a member of the Knesset, representing the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) in parliament since 2019. A scholar in the field political science, he obtained his PhD from the LSE on research project involving Marxist approach to nationalism. MK Cassif has been a loud and clear voice against the genocide in Gaza and war crimes of Israel, advocating for Palestinians rights, freedom and sovereignty from the heart of the Israeli political system. He suffered ever growing persecution and repercussions, including an attempt to impeach him for supporting South Africa’s ICJ case and multiplies bans on parliamentary activities. He supports a just peace based on immediate end of the occupation, following the traditions of the Communist Party of Israel, which he is a lifelong member of. He joined its ranks as a young adult after refusing to serve in the occupied Palestinians lands during the first intifada, and consequently facing military imprisonments.

17 November 2024

This lecture in partnership with the Working Class Movement Library will be delivered by Professor Marj Mayo will explore Engels as Educator Engels has been valued in so many ways, as a theoretician in his own right as well as having been Marx’s co-author and editor. His contributions to political education have been far less recognised. This lecture will argue that Engels does indeed have much contribute here too, though, making Marx’s writings accessible and relevant for wider audiences. ‘Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is a classic example’. But this isn’t all. Engels’ writings have also been trail blazing in terms of developing Marxist understandings of language, cultures and changing consciousness, understandings which have underpinned subsequent understandings of the development of class consciousness