Sixteen million people died in the First World War. No fewer than  one in 40 of the nine million British and  Commonwealth troops came f...

An estimated 36,367 children in the Glasgow City Council area are living below the poverty line, according to the research. Statistics fr...

Some may find this article on the history of anarchist and socialist activity in Glasgow of interest. The earliest known Glasgow anarchi...

The Libcom website has an interesting working class history article on the Glasgow dockers "ca' canny" go slow campaign of 1...

Cde Donnelly will open the March 20th Branch talk with the subject The Rise of Chinese Capitalism Cde Cumming will open the April 17th B...

Govanhill on the south side of Glasgow is home to some 15,000 has people from an estimated 42 different nationalities living within one squ...

Professor Tom Devine, director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies at Edinburgh University, welcomed plans for a planned monument in...

Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh came joint first in Scotland, (along with Glasgow’s Jordanhill School), after figures released showed...

This rather unsympathetic article by Gary Girod about Red Clydeside is of interest and a rich source of facts and details. The Back...

"It's a human tragedy on a massive scale," says Gerry McCartney , an epidemiologist at NHS Scotland. David Walsh , a lead re...

WhatClinic.com surveyed more than 3000 private dentists in the UK, including 50 in Glasgow and 30 in Edinburgh. Overall, it found that the...

 It’s a pity that there is so little written information about the history of Glasgow branch. However,  when I joined in 1963 there were ...

How the the Small Party of Glesga' Bookies (as the local branch in Glasgow was known in its early days because, it turns out, a number ...

To say times were hard when Glasgow branch was formed in 1924 would be a serious understatement. The branch consisted of working men, only ...

In previous blogs on the history of Scottish labour we have observed how religious bigotry often marred attempts to unite the working class...

Edinburgh Dr. Alison describes a similar state of things in Edinburgh, whose superb situation, which has won it the title of the modern Ath...

Former Glasgow shipyard trade unionist Sammy Barr recently passed away .  Alongside Jimmy Reid and Jimmy Airlie and Sammy Gilmore - he was ...

“The miners occupy the front trenches of the position singled out for attack and if their wages are reduced it will be the beginning of...

Pollution in several residential areas of Glasgow has reached potentially deadly levels. All the air quality monitors in the city a...

"It wisnae us" At the beginning of the 18th century, Glasgow was a poor town and Scotland, an isolated country. The 1707 Act of Un...