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Visit the Marx Memorial Library on May 1
MML director MEIRIAN JUMP announces a highlight of the historic building's annual calendar — open doors and speeches for May Day — and exciting future plans after securing major new funding
OPEN DAY: The library’s famous mural, featuring socialist greats
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THIS Monday May 1 the Marx Memorial Library will welcome those assembling for the May Day demonstration on Clerkenwell Green to a very special open day.
Join us at 37a Clerkenwell Green for feature tours, stalls of second-hand books on the history of the working-class movement and refreshments.
Tours cover the atmospheric office complete with original features where Lenin edited the Russian Bolshevik newspaper Iskra during a 13-month stint in London.
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