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- 16:24, 26 February 2018 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in (hist) [32,067 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in, 1971/72''' == Boom & Bust == The end of the 2nd World War, for understandable reasons, saw British shipyards enjoy a period of boom....")
- 16:23, 26 February 2018 Counter Information (hist) [4,760 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== A Rich Field == Since the start of the industrial revolution Glasgow has always been rich in its production of independent radical newspapers, bulletins, free-sheets etc....")
- 16:15, 26 February 2018 A Public Nuisance (hist) [25,613 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Tales of Adventure & Spirit of Revolt''' ''Glasgow Anarchists 1974 to 1986'' By Jim McFarlane == Squats and Seeds == A Libertarian Socialist group forms<ref>Autumn 1974...")
- 16:13, 26 February 2018 Clydeside Apprentices Strike 1952 (hist) [12,728 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== The Conference == January 27 1952 saw an event that set the ball rolling for the first major apprentices' strike since 1937, before the second world war. On that Sunday th...")
- 16:12, 26 February 2018 World War 2, Conscientious Objectors (hist) [16,520 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== No Conscription league == The peace movement during the 2nd World War was far different to the type of movement that formed during the First World War. The 1914-1918 peace...")
- 16:11, 26 February 2018 Clydeside Apprentices' Strike 1937 (hist) [7,082 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Wage Rates == Apprentices for some time had felt that they were drastically under paid, and were no more than a form of cheap labour. Apprentices' wages ranged from 8/- to...")
- 16:10, 26 February 2018 The General strike (hist) [20,162 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''General Strike, 1926''' == Origins of the Strike == The roots of the 1926 General Strike go back to before the 1914 - 1918 war. Over the years a struggle had been develop...")
- 16:07, 26 February 2018 Fight for Freedom of Speech on the Green (hist) [9,094 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Heart of the City == Glasgow Green lies in the centre of the city, it is the oldest of Glasgow's parks. Its origin lies in the common lands of the Burgh. Since the 1100s t...")
- 16:06, 26 February 2018 The Rent Strike to Bloody Friday (hist) [15,124 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Glasgow's Bloody Friday 1919''' Like all the events in political struggle it is difficult to trace the thread back to what brought it to this stage, Bloody Friday 1919 is...")
- 16:05, 26 February 2018 First World War Peace Movement (hist) [7,334 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Glasgow == At the beginning of the war Glasgow was the leading militant city, the major centre of mass support for the anti-war movement. John MacLean grew to be a giant b...")
- 16:04, 26 February 2018 The Clyde Workers' Committee (hist) [8,450 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== The Spark: The Forming of the LWC == In 1915 during a prolonged period of considerable economic hardship for most industrial workers, Clydeside engineering employers refus...")
- 15:58, 26 February 2018 The Rent Strike (hist) [5,899 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Causes == The first world war saw considerable change to the structure of Glasgow's working class. Youth employment was common with boys as young as 11 years of age employ...")
- 15:57, 26 February 2018 Women's Peace Crusade (hist) [4,436 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Women's Peace Crusade June 1916 == The Launch == Because ant-war feelings were running high in Glasgow it was only natural that Glasgow became the militant centre of the ant...")
- 15:56, 26 February 2018 The Singer Strike (hist) [7,044 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Singer Strike, 1911''' == The Beginning == In 1867/8 from its American base, the Singer Sewing Machine Co. expanded into Scotland. It first opened a small sewing mach...")
- 15:55, 26 February 2018 The World's First Ca'canny Strike (hist) [4,816 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The World's First Ca'canny Strike 1889 == Social Conditions == The 1889 dock strike took place during a time of extreme poverty among the working class with the dock workers...")
- 15:55, 26 February 2018 Scottish Anarchism (hist) [3,316 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Scottish Anarchism == Anarchism in Scotland has been surprisingly strong, given the numerically small anarchist movement in the U.K. George Woodcock doesn't cover it in <r...")
- 15:54, 26 February 2018 The Scottish Labour Party (hist) [1,887 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Scottish Labour Party, 19th May 1888''' 27 men met in Glasgow under the chairmanship of John Murdoch to organise a Labour Party in Scotland. The aims of the meeting we...")
- 15:53, 26 February 2018 The Birth of Glasgow's Anarchism (hist) [28,793 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== The British Birth == It is difficult to pinpoint the start of British Anarchism. It would seem that there were no Anarchist Groups before 1880, though there are records of...")
- 15:52, 26 February 2018 The Sma' Shot Strike, 1856 (hist) [1,711 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== The problem == In the 19th century the intricate patterns of the Paisley weavers work was held together by an unseen strong thread called the Sma' Shot. This secret stitch...")
- 15:51, 26 February 2018 1820 Insurrection (hist) [18,901 bytes] Annarky (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Conditions == The late 1700s through to the 1800s saw brutal repression of the reform groups. Execution and transportation being the norm for dissent. Bad harvests, chroni...")