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Conrad Landin is a writer based in Glasgow.
In the 1970s, the Labour government announced plans to close the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital in North London. The backlash that followed provides an enduring example of how public healthcare can be defended by grassroots organising.
The lessons Bob Gillespie learnt in the tenements of 1930s Glasgow inspired a remarkable life dedicated to improving workers’ lives here and across the world. He was one of Scotland’s finest socialists.
On this day in 1971, shipyard workers in Clydeside began a work-in to save 8,000 jobs. Their struggle kept the yards open – and defeated the Tory government.
The 1940s novels of Patrick Hamilton are marinaded in seediness and booze, but they also reveal the author’s radicalism – and contain one of the clearest and darkest portrayals of British fascism.
Eric Gordon, who passed away this week aged 89, founded the Camden New Journal in the fire of 1970s industrial struggle – and in the decades that followed neither the paper nor its editor lost their radical edge.
In the 1970s, the Writers’ Action Group campaigned for writers to receive royalties from library loans. Their campaign resulted in Public Lending Right – and is a model to follow in the fight for arts funding.
Eighty years ago this month, Michael Foot, Frank Owen and Peter Howard published ‘Guilty Men’ – a blistering condemnation of ruling class appeasement of Nazi Germany which became a national sensation.
A new book explores the role of Communists in building France’s militant railway unions – and gives insight into why, even today, they provide some of the sternest opposition to Macron’s labour reforms.
In November 1988 the SNP overturned a Labour majority of 13,000 in a campaign that foreshadowed their rise to the top of Scottish politics.