Edinburgh's Other Tattoo - Ellis D. Hayes
The story of Bowed Joseph Smith, notorious cobbler and rabble rouser in Edinburgh in the 1780s.
Bowed Joseph is said to have returned to support people resisting the eviction of Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre in 1994...
Communities of resistance unite! The Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre (1980-1994)
Submitted by bambule on Feb 6 2021 17:37
This paper looks into the history of the Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre (EUWC) and the struggles of anti-authoritarian revolutionary groups in Edinburgh during the 1980s and early 1990s. Grassroots and direct action oriented groups started to organise together in the early 1980s against the various attacks on the working class. They were often based in the EUWC and developed highly sophisticated forms of community resistance which culminated in their crucial role in the Poll Tax rebellion.
A brief timeline of Radical history in Edinburgh and the Lothians
Submitted by Rory Reid on Dec 28 2016 17:15
A brief outline of the untold radical history of popular grassroots resistance on the East coast of Scotland. Not all events mentioned are anarchist or possibly something I would support in full. Hopefully this will allow for the writing of a much more in-depth larger work in the future.
