A brief timeline of Radical history in Edinburgh and the Lothians
The Leith dockers strike 1913
The Leith dockers strike of 1913 was a strike of the dockers of Leith, Scotland from 26 June to 14 August 1913. The dockers were part of the National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL) union. The strike is said by newspaper of the time to have brought Leith to a standstill. Summary based on William Kenefick in Red Scotland, given by Edinburgh radical historian 'Rory Reid'.
Counterinfo Lab – Kiss ma hole: autonomous struggles in Scottish politics and culture
Common Sense Journal - Who were they?
Common sense was the journal of the Edinburgh conference of Socialist Economics . The magazine produced articles along the lines of Open and Autonomist Marxism
Counter Information newsletter
A complete online archive of Counter Information, which was a newsletter produced by an independent collective, based in central Scotland, including Glasgow, with the aim is to assist in the struggle against all injustice, oppression and exploitation. Published from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
There remains an operational Counter Information website at http://www.counterinfo.org.uk/
With thanks to Sparrows Nest, Splits & Fusions and Tyneside Anarchist.
The SNP, Scottish Nationalism and the Class struggle: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Written on 04/10/2015 ,·this piece aims to give a feel for the over-arching sweep of events in Scotland since the mid-nineties, contextualise the rise of a nationalism that is as divisive as any other, and show how faith in electoral state solutions has cast a shadow of reforms that will easily vanish in the proposed new dawn of an independent Scotland.
IWW supports UCU HE action on pay, anti-casualisation and gender pay gap
A statement from the Scottish IWW in support of the UCU strikes across Scotland in 2016.
For more information on the strike: ‘What is this dispute about?’ (UCU) https://www.ucu.org.uk/fair-deal-for-HE