EDUCATION @ MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY & WORKERS' SCHOOL WINTER/SPRING TERM 2016 Unless otherwise stated events start at 7pm at the MML, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0PQ and cost £3 on the door. For some series registrations are also available online. For further information, and for additional details on all listed events visit our website: http://marx-memorial-library.org.uk/education
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Peoples' History For Beginners: Part One This is the first of two series of five classes held on Tuesdays to be led by Simon Renton Registration form and suggested reading available online: http://marx-memoriallibrary.org.uk/education/register-for-eveningclasses 26 Jan: Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production: Ancient and Feudal Societies 2 Feb: The 17th Century: Revolutions in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales 9 Feb: The 18th Century: the First Half of the Industrial Revolution 16 Feb: The 19th Century: From the Rise of the Factory to WW1
REVOLUTIONS A course of lectures held on Thursdays examining the significance of a series of revolutions for radical and Marxist thought and particularly for the lessons drawn by the pioneers of Marxism 28 Jan: Professor Mary Davis on England 1640: The Radical Tradition 4 Feb: David Ayrton on France 1789 11 Feb: Ben Stevenson on France 1848 18 Feb: Jonathan White on France 1871
23 Feb: Overview and Themes: Classes, Class Conflict and Technological Change
Online Course – remote learning from the Marx Memorial Library Labour, Value and Exploitation: Introducing Marx's Economics. This course begins on 28 January 2016: registration is now open: http://marx-memorial-library.org.uk/education/our-online-educationprovision/online-course £20 waged/£10 unwaged The course is at an introductory level. It seeks to identify the key differences between Marx's approach and those of neo-liberal economics. It considers how Marx defines labour as the only source of new value and its implications for the understanding of capitalist crisis. The course involves supportive interaction between participants and a tutor. It has four sessions or classes, each lasting a fortnight.
CHILDREN AND SOCIALISM
This is the second of two series of five classes held on Tuesdays to be led by Simon Renton
A series of lectures and discussions held on Thursdays examining radical and socialist children's educational organisations, with a concluding session on young adult fiction
22 March: WW1 to WW2 and its aftermath
3 March: Fred Reid on Socialist Sunday Schools
29 March: 1960s and 1970s: the Golden Age of Trades Unions
10 March: Jane Rosen on Tom Anderson and the Proletarian Schools
5 April: Monetarism: Reagan, Thatcherism and Trades Unions under Attack
17 March: Annebella Pollen on the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift
12 April: De-industrialisation, Casualisation and Trades Unions
24 March: Professor Mary Davis on the Woodcraft Folk
19 April: Overview and Themes: Classes, Class Conflict and Technological Change
31 March: New Ways to Tell Old Stories: putting the political into historical fiction for today's young readers. Author Lydia Syson in conversation with Meirian Jump
Peoples' History For Beginners: Part Two
FILM FESTIVAL – Cinema Action: Struggles of the 1960s and 1970s This year the Marx Memorial Library is hosting a film festival in collaboration with Platform Films with screenings taking place at the MML once a month on a Saturday at 3pm. Each showing will be introduced and then followed by an opportunity for discussion. 30 Jan: 'White Paper' (1968); 'Fighting the Bill' (1970); 'Arise Ye Workers – The Dockers' Fight' (1974/5) 27 Feb: 'The UCS Struggle' (1971); 'Film From the Clyde' (1977) 26 March: 'GEC1' (1970); 'Vauxhalls' (1970); 'The Miners' Film' (1974/5) 30 April: 'Not a penny on the rents' (1968); 'Squatters' (1969/70); 'Hands off student unions' (1972)
School Workshops The MML now offers tailored workshops for groups of sixth formers including:
A tour of our historic building Primary source sessions Worksheets and packs on subjects including the Russian Revolution & Soviet Union; Spanish Civil War; Marx in London For further information email archives@mml.xyz
Trade Union Education Introductory sessions for trade union activists on politics and the history of the Labour Movement are now available at the MML on subjects including austerity, trade union power and antifascism. Get in touch to find out more archives@mml.xyz