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THE history of working-class struggle is to be revived for new generations through the trade union movement and the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), it was announced yesterday.
The WEA and the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) have launched a joint programme of online discussions on key moments in working-class history such as the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, the Diggers and Levellers which emerged from the English Civil War and the Chartist movement in the 1800s.
Leading academic historians warned recently that closures of University history departments were reducing the subject to the province of elites.
by Henry Fowler, General Strike 100 project co-ordinator
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
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
This ‘Big Meet’ our focus is building the next ‘Megapicket,’ say HENRY FOWLER and GAWAIN LITTLE of the General Federation of Trade Unions