BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further

SPEAKING at Saturday’s international meeting to mark the 90th anniversary of Marx Memorial Library and Workers School, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury called for a renewed international movement of solidarity against the increasingly coercive character of neoliberal exploitation worldwide.
When the library had been founded in 1933 workers faced fascism. “Today we see a rapid political rightward shift globally. It is the way finance capital is able to use ‘liberal democracy’ itself to ensure super-exploitation and super-profit.
“Elected parliaments are themselves legally stripping working people of secured rights and collaborating in a disastrous degradation of the environment. Racism, bigotry, communalism and chauvinism are, as in India and elsewhere, the tools of control.

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

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

