Royal Mail: Wildcat strikes spread as post piles up Wildcat stoppages at Royal Mail offices in Scotland have now spread to thirteen offices. Meanwhile 200 million items of post are now undelivered,…
Glasgow: 5,000 postal workers in unofficial action During the ongoing rolling strikes over pay and conditions, thousands of postal workers launched a wildcat strike in support of colleagues who…
Glasgow and the Wobblies The Industrial Workers of the World's influence in Glasgow is not so well known, but it had considerable influence on the shop stewards movement…
Glasgow: Demolition plans for former council housing Two-thirds of Maryhill’s former council houses are to be torn down.
Glasgow: Botany betrayed The new Maryhill plan – new back and front door houses for half of the current tenants – is exactly what Botany tenants were told in 2001.
Obituary: John Taylor Caldwell 1911-2007 The Kate Sharpley Library are sad to report the death of John Taylor Caldwell, veteran Glasgow anarchist and comrade and biographer of Guy Aldred…
McDougal, William, 1894-1981 A short biography of Scottish anarchist William C. McDougal, who was active in opposition to the First World War.
The fight for freedom of speech on Glasgow Green, 1916-1932 The history of the successful struggle to restore freedom of speech and assembly in one of Britain's…
1937: The Clydeside apprentices’ strike The strong Scottish strike of apprentices which help turn them from isolated individuals with no employment rights into organised, unionised workers.
1919: The 40-hours strike The 40 Hours strike led by the Clyde Workers' Committee was the most radical strike seen on Clydeside in terms of both its tactics and its…
1915: The Glasgow rent strike The history of a months-long rent strike of 30,000 Glasgow residents against profiteering landlords, forcing the government to freeze rents for…
