Revolt on the Clyde /

Tanks on the streets, local regiments confined to barracks and the imposition of martial law.This was not Petrograd, but Glasgow in 1919.Revolt on the Clyde is William Gallacher's eye witness account of these tumultuous events - and more - in an era that helped put the 'Red' into ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gallacher, William, 1881-1965 (Author)
Other Authors: Smith, Gary (Union leader) (writer of foreword.), Callow, John, Ph. D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Edition:Fifth edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gallacher, William, > 1881-1965.
Labour Party (Great Britain)
Communist Party of Great Britain.
Communists > Scotland > Biography.
Labor unions > Scotland > Officials and employees > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Gary Smith
  • Introduction / John Callow
  • 1. Early days
  • 2. John McLean and some others
  • 3. The February strike
  • 4. 'We are not paying increased rent'
  • 5. The 'jingoes' try their hand
  • 6. The Clyde in wartime
  • 7. Conscription and prison
  • 8. Workers' and soldiers' councils
  • 9. Last days of John McLean
  • 10. The Battle of George Square
  • 11. I meet Lenin
  • 12. After the general strike.

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