Are you currently fighting for a better world? Would you like to explore the past to change the future? Three nights of talks at Salford's Working Class Movement Library, using its incredible archives, will certainly help to fight your corner.
"The Working Class Movement Library exists to tell the story of people's fight for a
better world" a statement from the Library reads "This is not dreary politics, grey men in grey suits telling half truths. It's a place of ideas, of questions and of demands. The collection covers everything from working life to political life, to union life, to sporting life. It's full of stuff to inspire you to investigate, and to spur you on to participate..."
The three special nights on consecutive Wednesdays 15th, 22nd and 29th October from 6:30pm-8pm deal with everything from the fight against fascism to the anti-war movement to Percy Shelley's radical poetry that inspired the Left....
Wednesday 15th October - Mike Luft, long-term activist in many causes including
Oldham United Against Racism, reflects on the Library's anti-fascist holdings, from the 1930s struggle against the British Union of Fascists to the 1970s fight against the National Front, and their application to today's anti-racist and anti-fascist campaigns.
Wednesday 22nd October - Kevin Morgan, Manchester University history professor,
features firebrands like Thomas Paine from the late 1700s and Alf Purcell - 'the Arthur Scargill of the 1920s' - to consider the power of internationalist and anti-war arguments across the last two hundred years and their relevance today.
Wednesday 29th October - Jen Morgan, adviser on historical context to last year's
Masque of Anarchy performed by Maxine Peake, debates Percy Shelley and the British Left. Shelley's poetry has been linked to leftist movements from Peterloo and the Chartists to Occupy. Can this continue now that he is a resource for the right too?
Sign up for the series at enquiries@wcml.org.uk there are only twelve places so book yourself one today.
Working Class Movement Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford M5 4WX
Phone 0161 736 3601. For further details see www.wcml.org.uk
* See also Salford Stories and Radical Readings fundraiser for the Library starring Maxine Peake, Christopher Eccleston and Sheila Hancock - click here
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