Marx Memorial Library
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The Marx Memorial Library is a library in London holding 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, one of the few examples of the artform in the UK.
It opened in 1933 at 37a Clerkenwell Green, formerly home to many radical organisations, and an important publishing operation. Lenin used an office there when exiled in London in 1902-3; the office has been preserved.
[edit] 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"
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