Feature: Exhibition - Marx Memorial Library at Clerkenwell Green, Islington from May 1-31
Published: 28 April, 2011
IT was in January 1986 that News International – owners of The Times, Sunday Times, The Sun and News of the World – sacked thousands of its staff when it moved its operations to Wapping in east London.
Opening on May 1, that key industrial dispute is being marked by an exhibition, News International Wapping – 25 Years On. The exhibition, highlighting the 13-month struggle that the employees staged to save their jobs and protect trade union rights, is at the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell.
Dramatic images, photographs and accounts of the dispute will be on display. The multi-media exhibition has been organised by Unite, the National Union of Journalists, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and the Marx Memorial Library.
• Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, Islington, EC1, from May 1-31, Monday-Friday 11am-5pm, 020 7253 1485, www.marx-memorial-library.org