AS THIS most difficult winter yields to spring, Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School is preparing to emerge from the period of public closure forced on us by the Covid-19 pandemic. 

This month Marx Memorial Library launches a new membership offer. We want Morning Star readers to become library members and support the important work of Marxist education today. 

New members who join Marx Memorial Library in March and April receive hot off the press a 2021 edition of our indispensable journal Theory & Struggle, with a wide range of contemporary articles, reviews and commentary on history, political economy, working-class education and culture. 

Is there a better way to celebrate May Day than with our essential digest of new Marxist writing?

Becoming a member of Marx Memorial Library is easy and costs just £25 a year (£15 concessions). 

Morning Star readers can join by visiting our website (marx-memorial-library.org.uk) or go to our membership direct debit facility tinyurl.com/85v2tvfp. 

Marxist education has never been more necessary than it is today. The Marx Memorial Library is already a vital, growing force in the socialist and labour movements in Britain. 

In the last year, despite (or because of) lockdown over 100 new members joined us, attracted by our public lectures, book launches, panel discussions, classes and access to our digital archives. 

During 2020 we responded to the challenge of the pandemic by digitising more of our amazing archives and opening them to the public online. 

You can check out our unique and valuable post and photograph collection on our website. 

Marx Memorial Library also proudly presented our Wapping/News International Dispute Exhibition for the first time online. 

Our exhibition gives a workers’ perspective on the epochal confrontation 35 years ago between trade unionists and Rupert Murdoch’s media group backed by the forces of the state, which presaged today’s corporate media. 

If the Morning Star is the antidote to the diet of pap and lies served up by capitalist media, then the Marx Memorial Library is the archive that tells you where it all began.

Since moving lectures and classes online at the beginning of 2020, our Workers’ School has welcomed more than 700 students and attendees on courses ranging from historical materialism to imperialism and capitalist crisis. 

Our international collaborations have continued to grow, a reflection of the extraordinarily rich archive that Marx Memorial Library holds on liberation movements from India to Ireland. 

Our new exhibition covers the heroic struggles by workers and peasants for India’s freedom from British colonialism in the early 20th century. 

In 2021, together with the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, we will republish an introduction to the history and economy of the German Democratic Republic to mark 30 years since the dissolution of the socialist state. 

We are a member-led, educational charity engaged in the exciting and important work of providing a memory and a teaching resource for new generations of students. We hope that you will help us. 

Become a member of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School by visiting tinyurl.com/85v2tvfp.