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Opening Doors to the Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School

We will create an open shop front for labour and radical history in central London, with a new drop-in exhibition space featuring permanent and rotating displays. Members and visitors will be able to come in without an appointment and encounter the extraordinary stories held in our collections.

Those collections include material from demonstrations on Clerkenwell Green, the anti-fascist struggles documented in our Spanish Collection, housing and community campaigns, Trades Council activity and material dating back to the 1640s in the Klugmann Collection.

We will develop new online resources and relaunch our website, bringing these histories to audiences far beyond our building.

And we will make MML truly accessible. A new ramp, accessible WC facilities and improvements to our spaces will help ensure that everyone can take part.

Our Main Hall, a vital space for trade union meetings, workers’ education, events and organising, will remain at the heart of our work — but in a venue that is more accessible to all.

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    Why donate?

    Sydney Trades Hall was built by and for the trade unions of NSW. These unions had their beginnings at around the time the Tolpuddle Martyrs were transported. The agitation for democratic rights that was part of the release campaign carried on through the Chartist movement. Some of these Chartists came to the colony of NSW (as it then was) and were key organisers of the eight hour day movement. Many of the early trade unions in NSW were branches of British unions. Sydney Trades Hall is a repository for the memorabilia of that movement and the history of radical and labour movements in Australia, just as the Marx Memorial Library is in the UK. Solidarity

    Sydney Trades Hall, donor to Tolpuddle Martyrs Project

    The work of the MML gathering, preserving and promoting the writings of Marx, his contemporaries and interpretations of them, continues to provide new generations with examples of theory and practice on which to make sense of current conditions, and helps to inspire them to work for revolutionary change

    Claire Weiss, Friend of the MML
    August 2016

    In a rapidly-changing world, where media moguls peddle mass misinformation to fox and befuddle the masses and 'airbrush out' people's history, the MML maintains the archive and 'the red thread' of workers' struggles for truth and justice down the centuries. The library is 'a weapon of the revolution' and I am proud to support its work

    Wendy Butler, donor
    August 2016

    I think MML is a unique resource for anyone doing Marx-related research, with a great ethos, history and staff

    David Ireland, donor
    August 2016

    Understanding how society has developed is key to understanding how best to progress to a more just and equal society. The thinking and writing of Marx is as relevant to solving the world’s problems as ever. I am delighted to support the Marx Memorial Library through a charity set up to memory of my mother, Anne McLaren, a lifelong Marxist.

    Professor Susan Michie, donor
    August 2016