Essays
Updated May 2004
Links to the following essays are provided for those who wish to pursue their interest in the events and people that shaped the history of labour politics on Clydeside and in Scotland. Every effort has been made to select essays which are intellectually stimulating and bring a measure of historical and political balance to the debate surrounding the nature of Red Clydeside. The views contained within these essays are not necessarily those of the GDL.
- Armstrong, Alan
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All Hail, the Scottish Workers' Republic!
- Bagon, Paul
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Anglo-Jewry and the International Brigades: A Question of Motivation
- Botsford, David
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British Fascism and the measures taken against it by the British State
- Clark, Jim
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Glasgow 1919: A city in revolt
International Socialist, 2 Spring 1999
- Coupland, Phillip
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'Left-wing Fascism' in theory and practice: The case of the British Union of Fascists
- Cox, Judy
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Skinning a live tiger paw by paw: reform, revolution and Labour
- Foster, John
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Twentieth century Scotland: Shifting identities of nationhood
- Hill, Simon
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The Rise of Labour Politics
- Hope, John
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Fascism, the Security Service and the Curious Careers of Maxwell Knight and James McGuirk Hughes
- Jones, R.F.
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Anti-parliamentarism and Communism in Britain, 1917-1921
Subversion, February 2001
- Manley, John
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A British Communist MP in Canada: Willie Gallacher builds the popular front, 1936
Communist History Network Newsletter, Issue 6, October 1988
- Mitchison, Phil
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1919: A land fit for revolution
Socialist Appeal, Issue 70, June 1999
- Mitchison, Phil
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Britain 1926 General Strike: On the Verge of Revolution
- O'Brien, Mark
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Socialists and the origins of Labour
- Organise!
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Anarchist Communism in Britain
- Orr, Judith
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Nine days in May
- Palgrave Macmillan
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The Rise and Decline of British Bolshevism
- Peace Pledge Union
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Conscientious Objection: a brief introduction
- Pitt, Bob
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John Maclean and the Scottish Workers' Republic
What Next? Issue 6, 1997
- Renton, Dave
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The preconditions of labour solidarity: Red Clydeside before 1914
- Reynolds, Steve
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The Early Years of the Communist Party of Great Britain - 1922-1925
- Reynolds, Steve
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The founding of the British Communist Party
- Sagall, Sabby
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Follow your leaders?
Socialist Review, February 1996
- SelfEd Collective
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History of anarcho-syndicalism: Anarcho-syndicalism in Britain 1914-1930
- Sheridan, Tommy
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John Maclean: Scotland's socialist champion
International Socialist, Issue 1, Winter 1998
- Sherry, Dave
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31st January 1919: Bloody Friday in George Square
Socialist Review, January 2000
- Shipway, Mark
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Anti-parliamentary Communism: The movement for workers councils in Britain, 1917-1945
Subversion, February 2001
- Sramek, Joseph
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A Party for Ordinary Blokes: The birth of Britain's Labour Party, 1900-1924
- Stewart, Graeme
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Does Glasgow in 1919 show Labour is right?
Socialist Worker, Issue 1633, No.13. Feb 1999
- Tame, Chris R.
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Guy Aldred (1886-1963): The socialist as libertarian
Libertarian Alliance, 1994
- Thomas, Martyn
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The Blaina Riots 1935
- Todd, Miles
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National Government, Invergordon and the ILP
- Upham, Martin
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The History of British Trotskyism to 1949
- Wildcat
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Class war on the home front
Subversion, February 2001
- Young, James D.
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John Maclean, Socialism and the Easter Rising
The Scottish Workers Republic
- Young, James D.
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John Maclean Clydeside Socialist 1879-1923
The Scottish Workers Republic