May Day at the Marx Memorial Library

This open day celebrates International Workers' Day and features an exhibition charting the 1926 General Strike and key events relating to the miners' struggle and the battle for solidarity across the trade union. Free tours of the Library will also be available throughout the day giving guests the chance to see the room and desk used by Lenin while in exile during 1902/3 and banners of the British Battalion of volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The last tour starts at 3.20pm.