Scotland
Glasgow tenants to demonstrate against Housing Association
Hamiltonhill Action Group will be holding a demonstration with the Scottish Tennants' Organisation 24 September, against the Glasgow Housing Authority's (GHA) refusal to invest money in their community on .
Since putting in a formal request to GHA for a timetable of works to install Secured By Design steel security doors in Hamiltonhill, the Hamiltonhill Action Group have now escalated the campaign, since GHA have chosen to completely ignore both the request and complaint logged by the residents via the Action Group.
Postal strike: update on Scotland
Postal workers have ended unofficial strike action in Dundee as staff elsewhere in Scotland stage the latest in a series of official stoppages.
About 125 workers at the Dundee East office walked out for 24 hours in protest at the sacking of a colleague. Delivery offices in Stirling, Anstruther, Irvine and Lochgelly are affected by the latest official action.
Timex strike, 1993 - European Counter Network
1993 strike at an electronics factory in Dundee against layoffs and a wage-freeze.
Support is growing for the strike at the Timex electronics plant in Dundee, Scotland. On Monday 22 March, 16 people were arrested on a mass picket of 400 people outside the plant. Pickets blocked the road outside the factory, preventing scab workers entering for two hours. Two days before (on 20/3/93) 6,000 people took part in a demonstration in the city in support of the Timex strikers.
Up against the prole tax - The Red Menace
Article examining successful methods of resistance, following the introduction of the Poll Tax in Scotland in April 1989.
Poll tax
Postal workers stage unofficial walkouts in Dalkeith, Scotland
"Unofficial and unlawful" strike action was taken by postal workers at Dalkeith Delivery Office last week, according to Royal Mail.
Both postmen and office staff took unofficial strike action mid morning on Monday, June 22. They returned to work the next day and took unofficial action again last Wednesday. The strikers returned to normal working duties on Friday morning.
A spokesman for Royal Mail said: "The industrial action in Dalkeith was unofficial and unlawful.
Scottish teachers to ballot over class sizes
Scotland's teachers have moved a step closer to taking industrial action over the issue of class sizes.
Members of Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, have voted for a ballot on taking action in pursuit of classes with no more than 20 pupils. A majority also called for the cap to have statutory force.
The union's leader has claimed almost half of Scotland's councils have made no progress towards the government target of 18 pupils per class.
Beating the Poll Tax
Beating the Poll Tax was a widely distributed booklet that encouraged and analysed the rise of mass revolt against the Community Charge in 1989/90 as it was happening.
[i]It was first published by the Anarchist Communist Federation in March 1990, following 'The Poll Tax and How to Fight It' in October 1988. Scanned in and published online for the first time on the Anarchist Federation website in March 2006.
BEATING THE POLL TAX
by The Anarchist Communist Federation ( now, Anarchist Federation http://www.afed.org.uk )
Threatened Glasgow schools occupied by parents
Parents have seized control of the closure threatened Wyndford Primary and St. Gregory's Primary Wyndford in the Maryhill area of Glasgow.
School occupations of Wyndford Primary and St. Gregory's Primary Wyndford both now running through the night.
Both schools are threatened with closure by Glasgow City Council.
An originally tense situation with police - who had threatened to storm the buildings around 6pm - has been resolved through negotiation, and the peaceful protests are being allowed to continue unharmed.
Storione, Lawrence 1867-1922
A short biography of Lawrence Storione, miner and founder of the Anarchist Communist League in Fife.
Lawrence Storione was the son of the Italian stonemason Felix Storione and Philomena Moir (or Noir). He was born in Italy in 1867 and worked as a miner in Italy, France, Belgium and the west of Scotland before settling in Lumphinnans in 1908. It appears he had French citizenship, according to the 1901 census. He married Annie Cowan whom he met whilst living in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1900.
The battle for the Green - John Taylor Caldwell
The late veteran Glasgow anarchist JT Caldwell tells the story of a struggle to defend the right of open air speaking on Glasgow Green during the early 1930s. As well as legal conflicts, the events included rowdy mass demonstrations of up to one hundred thousand people.
Source; Workers City; ed. Farquhar McLay, Clydeside Press, Glasgow 1988.
THE SUMMER OF 1931 was a riotous season in Glasgow. There were demonstrations involving anything from forty-five thousand to one hundred thousand angry protesters, in scenes which Police Superintendent Sweeny of the Central Division described as "a disgrace to any civilised community". The focal point of these demonstrations was Glasgow Green.
