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May Day: Building on Our Radical Past
Our May Day History May Day has been a festive holiday for centuries. As a workers’ holiday, May Day arises from events that took place in Chicago in 1886 when a bomb exploded as police charged a rally. Four of the organizers were unjustly executed although they were not responsible for the bomb. In July […]
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International Women’s Day – Friday 8th March, 12 pm in Glasgow
In honour of International Women’s Day – Friday, 8 March – a Rally and Walk of Pride will be assembling at 12 Noon in the Glasgow City Centre at the Dewar’s statue in Buchanan Street. All are welcome to come together for singing, an open mic, a display of banners and placards, and leaflets on […]
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Calls for Solidarity with Community in Resistance to Toxic Gold mining
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WWI: Remember the Dead, Remember Those Who Resisted
Today, 11th November, is the 100th anniversary of the 1918 armistice which ended the First World War. More than ever, the build-up to Remembrance Day has been used to push a pro-militarist agenda, and attack dissenting views. It pushes ‘patriotism’ and ignores class, gender, race, disability and other sources of power and inequality. We mourn the […]
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Dear SNP: The Past Misdemeanours of Labour and Union Leaders are not the Concern of Women on Strike Today
This was written by a Dundee Wobbly (in personal capacity) on 24th October – the second day of the Glasgow women’s equal pay strike. There are 8,000 women on strike in Glasgow today demanding equal pay. They are spread across three trade unions, each of whose balloted members provided a support rate of between 90% […]
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