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Glasgow 1919 - The Rise of Red Clydeside (Hardcover)
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Glasgow 1919 - The Rise of Red Clydeside (Hardcover)
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The arrival of January 1919 sees Europe in turmoil, with revolution
breaking out across the Continent. Glasgow's industrial community
has been steeled by radicalism throughout the Great War, and as the
spectre of mass unemployment and poverty threatens, a cadre of shop
stewards, supported by political activists, is ready to strike for
a forty-hour week. They face a state nervous of their strength and
anxious about the wider consequences of their action, with the War
Cabinet monitoring the situation closely. On 31 January, now known
as Bloody Friday, tensions came to a head when 60,000 demonstrators
clashed with police in George Square. The `Scottish Bolshevik
Revolution' (so termed by the Secretary of State for Scotland)
erupted, with tanks and 10,000 soldiers immediately despatched to
the city to enforce order. The strike may have failed, but 1922 saw
the arrival of Red Clydeside, as the Independent Labour Party swept
the board in the general election. Now, 100 years on, Kenny
MacAskill separates fact from fiction in this adept social history
to explore how the events of that fateful day transpired and why
their legacy still endures. Drawing on original material from
speeches and newspaper reports of the time, MacAskill also paints a
vivid picture of the solidarity amongst the working class in a
rousing testimony to Glasgow's long radical history.
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