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A FUNDRAISING appeal to help renovate the Marx Memorial Library (MML) will be launched this week after the building sustained serious damage following a flood.
The library’s collection of 60,000 books was put at risk on September 24 after heavy rainfall led to water gushing through the building.
MML staff and trustees will launch a Lenin 150 fundraising campaign appeal on Friday, with the aim of raising £50,000 by April 22 2020, Vladimir Lenin’s 150th birthday.
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
LYNNE WALSH reports from last weekend’s moving remembrance of the International Brigades in London’s Jubilee Gardens where anti-fascists gathered to hear how even in the darkest of times we can build a vision of a better tomorrow, as the Brigaders fought to do 89 years ago
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the extraordinary race against time to ensure London’s memorial to the International Brigades got built – as activists gather next week to celebrate the monument’s 40th anniversary


