POLITICAL SONG IN POLLOKSHIELDS
- Janey Buchan Political Song collection
- The Red Flag from the LP produced by the Workers Music Association that we wanted to buy for the tour but it costs £80
- A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World by Ruth Ewan
- Red Clydeside by Alastair Hulett
BANK ROBBERS AT MOYRA JAYNES
- When Mao met Moyra Jayes: The Workers’ Party of Scotland robs da bank in 1971 by Stewart Maclennan.
KENMURE STREET
- Kenmure St – transcript of podcast interview with locals & activists involved
- Kenmure St – memory book by Jo Knight & the community
POETS, WRITERS, ARTISTS
- Edwin Morgan, Scottish Poetry Library
- Digital exhibition of some of Louis Sinclair’s Trotsky collection, University of Glasgow archives
- Archie Hind
- Jasleen Kaur – Alter Altar at Tramway
HISTORY & HERITAGE
- Colourful Heritage – South Asian and Muslim heritage in Scotland
- South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust – great articles on the Pollok Free State, Mary Barbour and an ongoing project on Slavery Legacies of the Southside
- Stephen Mullan – The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 (free PDF)
JANE HAINING
- Jane Haining’s story on Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre
- Biography of Jane Haining
- “Edinburgh Council to install ‘Stolperstein’ memorial to Scots Holocaust victim Jane Haining”, Church of Scotland
GLASGOW JEWISH INSTITUTE PLAYERS & RADICAL THEATRE IN THE CITY
- Avrom Greenbaum and the Glasgow Jewish Institute Players, a great piece on the University of Glasgow Library blog
- From the Gorbals to the Lower East Side: the Cosmopolitanism of the Glasgow Jewish Institute Players – Maloney P & Scullion A in New Theatre Quarterly (2018) (open access)
- Towards a Scottish People’s Theatre: the Rise and Fall of Glasgow Unity – John Hill
- Ida Schuster’s Old School podcast
- Look out for the Red Flag Players, a new radical drama group in Glasgow currently working on “The Fire that Never Went Out!”, a play about the Cragiallan Fire.
GOVANHILL BATHS AND OTHER SOUTHSIDE OCCUPATIONS
- Govanhill Baths archive & heritage
- Occupy! Occupy! Occupy! – The History of Saving Govanhill Baths – Paula Larkin, Govanhill Baths archivist
- Kinning Park Complex history
- The Lasting Legacy of the Pollok Free State
- Pollok Free State and its legacy – South Glasgow Heritage and Environment Trust
- What do you think you have to lose here? Archive footage from the Pollok Free State
- Galgael
JOHN MACLEAN
- John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside – RGT’s own Henry Bell
- Walking in the Footsteps of John Maclean: A History of Political Radicalism in the Southside
- Texts of many of Maclean’s speeches and articles are available here
- The Scottish Labour History Society ran a centenary conference on Maclean in 2023, you can watch recordings from the event (including Henry and Katherine of RGT) via this link.
PAUL ROBESON IN GLASGOW
- Robeson leads May Day Parade (1960) British Pathe film (sadly without sound)
- When Paul Robeson Came to Queen’s Park – Greater Govanhill magazine
ANTIFASCISM
At the gates of Queens Park political speakers would regularly address large crowds. Though most speakers were from left-wing socialist, anarchist and communist groups, in 1936 members of the British Union of Fascists tried to hold a meeting at the gates. But here, as on all other occasions when they tried to meet publicly in Glasgow, they were beaten back by young people from the Jewish Workers’ Organisation, the Young Communist League, and the Labour League of Youth. The protesters would disrupt proceedings with loud shouting and singing to drown out the speeches, or sometimes taking more direct action. Monty Berkely remembered confronting fascist politician William Joyce: “I had the privilege of taking one of the platform legs and throwing the platform up in the air. We then had to run and were chased by the police but got away.” This is the origins of the phrase “no platforming”.
How Govanhill defeaterd Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in the 1930s
For more on histories of fascism and antifascism in Scotland have a look at this handout we made for distribution at a recent antifascist demo in Glasgow.
JUST SOME OF THE GREAT WORK HAPPENING IN THE AREA TODAY
Unity Books, Britain’s largest socialist bookshop
South East Glasgow Integration Network, sign up for their brilliant news & events emails
Irish History group, Govanhill Baths
Govanhill International Festival and Carnival, every August
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