In the 1930s there were 100s of miners libraries in Wales, workers across Britain had set up 1000s of "mechanics institutes" and socialist Sunday schools, where workers read everything from Einstein to Chaucer and Marx - books and education are central to working class liberation

The Welsh miners institutes were "one of the greatest networks of cultural institutions created by working people anywhere in he world"

The decline of these independent working class centres of education alongside the "retreat into academia" of much of the left, perhaps fuels some legitimate antipathy towards "theory" - but the better response is for us to rebuild these foundations for the future of our class

As Gramsci put it, “the problem of education is the most important class problem” - here are some groups working to build in this tradition today: @TheBeehiveMCR @PoliticalEdProj @TrademarkBF @Center4PE @MarxLibrary @ClaudiaJonesEdu