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FJDK
In violent times,
You shouldn't
have to sell
your soul.
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They gave you life
And in return you gave them hell!
As cold as ice ~
I hope we live
to tell the tale.
And when you've taken down
your guard ~
If I could change your mind,
I'd really love
to break your heart!
They really ought
to know,
Those one track minds
That took you for a
working boy -
Kiss them goodbye!
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FJKJF
Britain’s only General Strike shook the British ruling class out of their thrones
and reflected how collective working class action can change society...
The 1926 General Strike was the climax of increasing class struggle in Britain since World War 1. During the war, the miners, dockers and railway workers
formed the Triple Alliance which united almost 1 ½ million workers…
Black
Friday, was one of the worst riots on the streets of Glasgow,
which took place on Friday, January 31, 1919. The
dispute revolved around a campaign for shorter working hours, backed by widespread strike action.
Clashes
between police and protesters broke out, and led to the Government sending soldiers to
the
city to prevent any further gatherings due
to
their fear of a left-wing workers revolution, described as a "Bolshevist uprising".
After the riot, English troops, an estimated
10,000, and tanks were sent into the city to control unrest and extinguish any revolution
that should break out…
FJKJF
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FJKJF
Whenever they’s a fight
so hungry people can eat,
I’ll be there.
Whenever they’s a cop beatin’
up a guy,
I’ll be there . . . .
I’ll be in the way guys yell
when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s
ready.
An’ when our folks eat the
stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—
why, I’ll be there.
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
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General Strike, 1926
Over the years a struggle had been developing between; on the
one hand a growing militant working class and on the other the employers and the state. The strike was initiated to defend
the living conditions of the miners.
There was now a realization by the mass of the workers that
joint action by the whole trade union movement was needed to defend the wages and conditions of the working class…
Any concessions won directly were made in an attempt to halt
rising working class militancy…
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FJKJF
Know this … a man got to do what he got to do.
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
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FJKJF
Mention Glasgow and various stereotypes jump to mind, shipbuilding,
dreadful slums, random violence, razor gangs, and hard drinking (Although I never touch the stuff, if you
ever need a good “Hit Man” just buy
a bottle of Jack Daniels
and give me a call!).
What else is written about the city usually refers
to captains
of industry, architects, inventors, and medical
men of note.
Scratch the surface,
and you find another Glasgow
with a long tradition,
the real Glasgow,
“Radical Glasgow”
Glasgow can boast of a long tradition of radical movements growing from the ranks of ordinary people.
People struggling not only to
improve their own conditions, but that of all working class people….
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What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro’ many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor’s wages.
The English stell we could disdain,
Secure in valours station;
But English gold has been our bane-
Sic a parcel of rogues in a nation.
Robert Burns
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“A thousand horse, the wild and free,
like waves that follow o’er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on…”
Lord Byron
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Fierce with our Hellraising, Yet fiercer with our Love.
For always, forever, together ~
Until Hell calls our names.
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