Marx Memorial Library
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The Marx Memorial Library in London, United Kingdom is a library, archive, educational, and community outreach charity focused on Marxist and wider socialist bodies of work.
Marx Memorial Library
The worker of the future upsetting the economic chaos of the present: mural by Jack Hastings, 1935
Iskra
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Iskra was a fortnightly political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants established as the official organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
Marx Memorial Library
…Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin worked in the building that would become the Marx Memorial Library, publishing seventeen issues of his newspaper Iskra (Spark) from within the building. The office he allegedly used is preserved as a memorial to him, although this room did not in fact exist at the time…
The first issue of Iskra
1950 Soviet postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the first issue of Iskra, and claiming Pravda as its continuation