Marx Memorial Library
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Marx Memorial Library
The Marx Memorial Library in London holds more than 43,000 books, pamphlets and newspapers on Marxism, Scientific Socialism and Working class history. The library also features the fresco The worker of the future upsetting the economic chaos of the present by Jack Hastings, painted in 1935. It is one of the few examples of the art form in the UK. The Library's chair is Fred Williams.
It opened in 1933 at 37a Clerkenwell Green, formerly home to many radical organisations, and locale of an important publishing operation. Lenin used an office there when exiled in London in 1902-3. The office has been preserved.
The Marx Memorial Library now also houses "The Printers Collection" consisting of the archives of the printing and papermaking unions of the UK and Ireland. The collection includes union documents, magazines, photographs, badges and memorabilia. The archive was opened in March 2009 by Derek Simpson Joint General Secretary of Unite and Tony Burke, Assistant General Secretary of Unite.
References
- Andrew Rothstein, A House on Clerkenwell Green, 1966
- Brief history
- Marx Memorial Library
- Letter to The Times 5 May 1967 p 11 "A House Worth Saving"
Coordinates: 51°31′22″N 0°06′21″W / 51.5229°N 0.1057°W
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