Programme
Legacy of Unity: Archival Insights from the Pan African Congress 1945
Kath Locke - Birley
12.10.2025
10AM – 12:30PM
TWT25_103

Join the Working Class Movement Library to explore items from its archive of the 1945 Pan African Congress.The session features materials from and about key figures such as Padmore, Nkrumah, Cabral, C.L.R. James, Kath Locke and Len Johnson.

Rejecting dismissals of national liberation movements as merely bourgeois or nationalist, these leaders forged solidarities across borders and linked the struggles of colonised peoples with those of workers in the metropole. In doing so, they envisioned new forms of global cooperation and resistance that challenged empire and asserted that the path toward socialism must place colonial liberation at its core.

Speakers

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust is a specialist open-access library and archive, focusing on the study of race, migration and thinking about race, anti-racist activism and the fight for social justice.

The North West Film Archive (NWFA, established 1977) in Manchester, is a moving image collection for the North West of England

The People's History Museum is the National Museum of Democracy.

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