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WATCH BACK: Inksurgency Panel Discussion (28.08.25)
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Kirkby: Legacies of Struggle Tickets, Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Kirkby: Legacies of Struggle Tickets, Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Join us for a screening of a short film exploring the people and activities of the Kirkby Unemployed Centre.
Online Exhibition: Keep The Flame Burning - Working Class Movement Library
Online Exhibition: Keep The Flame Burning - Working Class Movement Library
Here we present a selection of some key exhibited pieces. You can see the exhibition in full at the WCML until 10 April 2026.
Keep the Flame Burning Exhibition
Keep the Flame Burning Exhibition
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Who were Big Flame?
Who were Big Flame?
In this blog post, our Big Flame Project Researcher, Seth Wheeler, explores the roots of the socialist revolutionary organisation, Big Flame. Emerging on Merseyside out of the upswing in political activity that characterized university life at the end of the 1960s, the libertarian socialist organization Big Flame (active between 1970-1985) are notable in their attempt to synthesize the concerns of the then burgeoning women’s liberation movement, with their commitment to ‘rank-and-file’ workplace and community organization and their rejection of Leninist vanguardism, which put them at odds with much of Britain’s extra-parliamentary opposition during the 1970s. While never numbering more than...
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Engels Memorial Lecture with Manfred Sohn
Engels Memorial Lecture with Manfred Sohn
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Are you interested in helping design and develop a community garden? If so, then why not join our volunteering gardening opportunity: Roots of Resistance! 🌿 What is Roots of Resistance? 🌿 Roots of Resistance is a volunteer gardening project aimed at cultivating both a beautiful green space and a sense of community at our home in Jubilee House in Salford. The project has been funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and will take place over the next two-years. 🌼 How Can You Get Involved? 🌼 Complete this form to register your interest. No experience is necessary, and training will...
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WCML Podcast
Did you know that the Working Class Movement Library has a podcast? Listen back to our talks featuring engaging discussions on working class history from the comfort of your home. Delivering Justice: Towards a History of Food Delivery Workers’ Organising “Rochdale Villages” with Isaac Rose & Owen Hatherley Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History Many Struggles: New Histories of African and Caribbean People in Britain Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984-1985 Giz a Job: a History of the 1981 People’s March for Jobs Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace
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