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Meirian Jump
The front of the Marx Memorial Library
Features / 24 April 2025
24 April 2025

The time is now to start reimagining a bigger future for the library, writes MEIRIAN JUMP

KNOWING YOUR HISTORY: (L to R) Cable Street battle memorial
Durham Miners' Gala / 13 July 2024
13 July 2024
The Marx Memorial Library is a treasure trove of labour movement archives and tradition of working-class education, writes MEIRIAN JUMP
panellists: (Left to right) Ruth Hayes, Katie McAndrew, Meir
Features / 1 May 2024
1 May 2024
Looking ahead to the centenary in 2033, MML director MEIRIAN JUMP reports on the ambitious plans to renovate and open up the historic institution as a ‘shopfront for Marxism’ in the heart of central London
The Marx Memorial Library and Workers School has been celebr
Features / 19 November 2023
19 November 2023
MEIRIAN JUMP reports from the weekend’s international conference to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Marx Memorial Library and Workers School
Meirian Jump speaking outside the Marx Memorial Library
Features / 8 July 2023
8 July 2023
MEIRIAN JUMP explains how the MML is developing its proud history of trade union education for activists to build their knowledge of struggle and class analysis
OPEN DAY: The library’s famous mural, featuring socialist
Features / 28 April 2023
28 April 2023
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
Features / 5 January 2023
5 January 2023
Director MEIRIAN JUMP looks at the year ahead for a unique left-wing resource for workers’ education in the heart of London
Features / 9 July 2022
9 July 2022
MEIRIAN JUMP of the Marx Memorial Library explains why your help is needed to help save the treasure trove of the Daily Worker/Morning Star’s print archive going back to the paper’s founding in 1930
New to the MML, an 1860s watch inscribed by the First Intern
Features / 16 March 2022
16 March 2022
Archivist and library manager MEIRIAN JUMP announces a celebratory membership drive for a unique resource for the history and present day of the workers' movement and Marxism
Meirian Jump at the library
Features / 9 July 2020
9 July 2020
MEIRIAN JUMP explains how the MML is continuing in the proud tradition of Marxist education – and how supporters can benefit if they take out membership
The Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell Green
Features / 31 March 2020
31 March 2020
While we have temporarily closed our doors on Clerkenwell Green, the MML continues its work mobilising innovative technology in new ways, writes library manager MEIRIAN JUMP
A table of victims from the  Report of the Metropolitan Cent
Peterloo: 200 years on / 16 August 2019
16 August 2019
Archivist MEIRIAN JUMP unearths some unique artefacts of the era, preserved since 1820