Solidarity!

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Solidarity! Is a 10-month collaborative youth research project at the Working Class Movement Library, exploring youth perspectives on class and working-class political history.

The Solidarity! project aims to:

Explore and discuss youth perspectives on class and working-class political history
Facilitate youth-led research on items from the WCML collection
Produce an exhibition
Find ways to make the WCML exciting and relevant to young people

We’ll discuss things like:

What does class mean to young people today?
How do young people relate to the WCML?
What does political working-class history matter offer us, now?

Solidarity! is part of Bea’s PhD research in sociology and heritage at Manchester Metropolitan University. Throughout the project, we’ll be working with the Working Class Movement Libray’s collection of archival materials, this includes printed matter, books, banners, posters, photographs and anything else we can find. We’ll be thinking about how past movements might relate to issues, struggles and conditions working-class people face today, and what we might want future action and movements to look like.

Who?
Young people living in the Greater Manchester area
aged 15 -19

When?
October 2025 - Spring 2026

Where?
The project will run from the Working Class Movement Library, 51 Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX

How?
Find out more info and sign up by clicking the ‘sign up here’ button at the top of this page, or clicking here.