84 Allan Armstrong, ‘The Republic of the Imagination’, Emancipation and Liberation, 14 (2006), http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2007/03/13/the-republic-of-the-imagination/, accessed 4 December 2013
85 Hugh MacDiarmid and Lewis Grassic, Scottish Scene or the Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn, Jarrods, 1934, p. 11
86 John Manson, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poet and the Party’, Communist History Network Newsletter, 12 (Spring 2002), socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/chnn/CHNN12P.html, accessed 24 October 2012
87 Jeremy Matthew Glick, ‘Taking Up Arms Against a Sea of Troubles’: Tragedy as History and Genre in the Black Radical Tradition, ProQuest, 2007, p. 2
88 Hugh MacDiarmid and Alan Bold, The Thistle Rises, p. 282
89 John Baglow, Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self, McGill-Queen’s Press, 1987, p. 77
12. World War II and After
1 Angus Calder, The People’s War, Granada, 1982, p. 49
2 T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation 1700–2000, pp. 550–51
3 Angus Calder, The People’s War, p. 342
4 Tom McKendrick, ‘The Clydebank Blitz’, tommckendrick.com/code/blitzpage1.html, accessed 17 May 2013
5 ‘Greenock Corporation and the Blitz’, WW2 – A People’s War, 23 March 2004, bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/34/a2453834.shtml, accessed 26 November 2012
6 Angus Calder, The People’s War, p. 457
7 Richard Croucher, Engineers At War 1939–1945, p. 85
8 Ibid., pp. 102–4
9 Nina Fishman, The British Commnist Party and the Trade Unions 1933–1945, pp. 317–18
10 Transcript of interview with Agnes McLean, A People’s War (Thames TV / Channel 4), pp. 4–10, 21–25, keele.ac.uk/history/currentundergraduates/tltp/WOMEN/SUMMERFI/TEXT/SUMER263.HTM#Title, accessed 2 October 2012
11 Penny Summerfield, ‘Women and War in the Twentieth Century’, in June Pervis (ed.), Women’s History: Britain 1850–1945, Routledge, 1995, p. 274
12 Geoffrey G. Field, Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939–1945, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 105
13 Esther Breitenbach, ‘Scottish Women’s Organisations and the Exercise of Citizenship, c1900–c1970’, in Pat Thane (ed.), Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century, Continuum, 2010, p. 64
14 R. A. Leeson, Strike: A Live History 1887–1971, p. 161
15 Ibid.
16 Christopher Harvie, ‘The Recovery of Scottish Labour: 1939–1951’, in Ian Donnachie, Christopher Harvie and Ian S. Wood (eds), Forward! Labour Politics in Scotland 1888–1988, p. 73
17 Ibid., p. 77
18 Bob McLean, ‘Labour in Scotland Since 1945: Myth and Reality’, in Gerry Hassan (ed.), The Scottish Labour Party, Edinburgh University Press, 2004, p. 34
19 Christopher Harvie, ‘The Recovery of Scottish Labour: 1939–1951’, p. 69
20 Farquhar McLay (ed.), Workers’ City: The Real Glasgow Stands Up, Clydeside Press, 1988, citystrolls.com/workers-city/sandy.htm, accessed 17 July 2012
21 Ibid.
22 R. A. Leeson, Strike: A Live History 1887–1971, p. 233
23 Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics, 1707–1977, pp. 174–76
24 Michael Keating, ‘The Labour Party in Scotland: 1951-1964’, in Ian Donnachie, Christopher Harvie and Ian S. Wood (eds), Forward! Labour Politics in Scotland 1888–1988, p. 87
25 Frances Wood, ‘Scottish Labour in Government and Opposition 1964–1979’, in Ian Donnachie, Christopher Harvie and Ian S. Wood (eds), Forward! Labour Politics in Scotland 1888–1988, p. 101
26 Michael Anderson, ‘The Demographic Factor’, in T. M. Devine and Jenny Wormald (eds), The Oxford History of Modern Scotland, Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 52
27 Vincent Cable, ‘Glasgow: Area of Need’, in Gordon Brown (ed.), The Red Paper on Scotland, EUSPB, 1975, pp. 232 and 239
28 Frances Wood, ‘Scottish Labour in Government and Opposition 1964– 1979’, p. 101
29 Aberdeen Voice, 21 October 2011, http://aberdeenvoice.com/tag/fascism/, accessed 1 October 2012
30 Harry McShane, ‘Glasgow’s Housing Disgrace’, in Robery Duncan and Arthur McIvor, Labour and Class Conflict on the Clyde 1900–1950, John Donald, 1992, p. 28
31 Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing, Harcourt Brace, 1994, p. 14
32 ‘Glasgow Has Highest Level of Toxic Pollution in UK’, road.cc, 25 September 2012, http://road.cc/content/news/67317-glasgow-has-highest-level-toxic-pollution-uk, accessed 25 October 2013
33 Hugh MacDiarmid, ‘Knoydart Land Seizures’, The National Weekly, 1 (10) (20 November 1948)
34 ‘The Men of Knoydart’, Dick Gaughan’s Song Archive, dickgaughan.co.uk/songs/texts/knoydart.html, accessed 23 April 2013
35 Michael Keating, ‘The Labour Party in Scotland: 1951–1964’, p. 91
36 Christopher Harvie, ‘The Recovery of Scottish Labour: 1939–1951’, pp. 80–82
37 Ibid., p. 66
38 David McCrone, Understanding Scotland: The Sociology of a Nation, Routledge, 2001, p. 107
39 Tom Gallagher, Glasgow, the Uneasy Peace, p. 269
40 Frances Wood, ‘Scottish Labour in Government and Opposition: 1964–1979’, p. 89
41 Christopher Harvie, Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics, 1707–1977, p. 204
42 Frances Wood, ‘Scottish Labour in Government and Opposition: 1964–1979’, pp. 105–7
43 Global Non Violent Action Database, ‘Scots and Peace Activists Protest US Navy Ba’se at Holy Loch, Scotland, 1960–61’, http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/scots-and-peace-activists-protest-us-navy-base-holy-loch-scotland-1960–61, accessed 24 April 2013
44 Marion Blythman, ‘We Were on the Side of Anything That Made the Americans Mad’, in Nuclear Free Scotland, 50th Anniversary Edition, May 2008, ‘Then and Now: 50 Years of Struggle for a Better World’, google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=morris%20blythman%20thurso%20berwick&source=we b&cd=43&cad=rja&ved=0CDwQFjACOCg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.banthebomb.org%2Fhistory%2FNFSapr08.pdf&ei=RfJ3Uam6A8KX0AWc qIHQDQ&usg=AFQjCNFJelboE3iVHHE1zrhiZQntAcPWdw&bvm=bv.45580626,d.d2k, downloaded 24 April 2013
45 Ibid.
46 ‘Thurso Berwick (1919–81)’, http://citystrolls.com/a-real-peoples-history/thurso-berwick-1919-1981, accessed 18 May 2013
47 Marion Blythman, ‘We Were on the Side of Anything That Made the Americans Mad’
48 Glasgow Herald, 28 March 1961
49 Marion Blythman, ‘We Were on the Side of Anything That Made the Americans Mad’
50 Ibid.
51 ‘The Govan Billiard Hall Song’, Tobar an Dualchais, tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/79164/4;jsessionid=23D351023CDC10AC5DF42CEF867CF3DD, accessed 25 October 2013
52 Ewan MacColl, Journeyman, Sidwick and Jackson, 1990, p. 21.
53 Ibid., p. 265
54 John McGrath, Naked Thoughts that Roam About: Reflections on Theatre, 1958–2001, Nick Hern Books, 2002, p. 47
55 Corey Gibson, ‘Hamish Henderson’s Conception of the Scottish Folk-song Revival and Its Place in Literary Scotland’, p. 56, academia.edu/539708/Hamish_Hendersons_conception_of_the_Scottish_Folk-song_Revival_and_its_place_in_literary_Scotland, accessed 9 October 2012
56 Ibid.
57 Colin Fox, ‘Time for a People’s Festival’, Frontline, 5 (2001), redflag.org.uk/frontline/ive/05festival.html, accessed 9 October 2012
58 Ibid.
59 Raymond Williams, Keywords, Oxford University Press, 1985, p. 237
60 Dave Harker, Class Act: The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl, Pluto Press, 2007, p. 192
61 Tobar an Dualchais, ‘The Govan Billiard Hall Song’
62 Mary Brooksbank, No Sae Lang Syne: A Tale of This City, Dundee Printers Ltd (no date), p. 5
63 ‘Hey Donal Donal’, http://sangstories.webs.com/heydonalhodonal.htm, accessed 26 May 2013
64 Mary Brooksbank, No Sae Lang Syne: A Tale of this City, p. 6
65 Ibid., p. 10
> 66 Ibid., p. 9
67 Annmarie Hughes, Gender and Political Identities in Scotland: 1919–1939, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 192
68 Mary Brooksbank, No Sae Lang Syne: A Tale of this City, p. 30
69 Ibid., p. 35
70 Graham Stevenson, ‘Communist Biogs: Mary Brooksbank’, grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:m ary-brooksbank&catid=2:b&Itemid=98, accessed 30 April 2013
71 ‘Mary Brooksbank – Revolutionary, Poet and Songwriter’, Alternative Perthshire, alternative-perth.co.uk/marybrooksbank.htm, accessed 30 April 2013
72 Ibid.
73 Ibid.
74 Mary Brooksbank, No Sae Lang Syne: A Tale of This City, p. 27
13. The 1970s: When Workers Won
1 Ralph Darlington, Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain, 1972, Bookmarks, 2001, p. 17
2 Colin Nicholson, Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity, Manchester University Press, 2002, p. 76
3 ‘There will be no hooliganism. There will be no vandalism. There will be no bevvying, because the world is watching us’, Evening Times, 28 July 2011, eveningtimes.co.uk/features/features-editors-picks/jimmy-reid-1971-there-will-be-no-hooliganism-there-will-be-no-vandalism-there-will-be-no-bevvyin, accessed 20 May 2013
4 Harry Shapiro, Jack Bruce: Composing Himself, Jawbone, 2010, pp. 146–47
5 Colin Nicholson, Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity, p. 77
6 Ralph Darlington, Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain, p. 22
7 ‘UCS work-in veterans celebrate 40th anniversary of famous dispute … and this time there WAS bevvying’; Daily Record, 16 September 2011, dailyrecord.co.uk/news/real-life/ucs-work-in-veterans-celebrate-40th-1081953, accessed 20 May 2013
8 Socialist Worker, 11 September 1971
9 ‘Industry in the Vale of Leven’, valeofleven.org.uk/valeindustry4.html, accessed 4 July 2012
10 Jim Phillips, ‘The 1972 Miners’ Strike: popular agency and industrial politics in Britain’, Contemporary British History 20 (2) (2006), pp. 187–88
11 Ibid., p. 188
12 Ralph Darlington, Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain, 1972, p. 64
13 Jonathan Winterton and Ruth Winterton, Coal, Crisis, and Conflict: The 1984–85 Miners’ Strike in Yorkshire, Manchester University Press, 1989, p. 165
14 Ralph Darlington, Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain, 1972, p. 201
15 Gordon Honeycombe, Red Watch: A True Story, Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2007, pp. 16–24
16 Jimmy Reid, Rectorial Address, Scottish Left Review, scottishleftreview.org/li/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=336, accessed 4 December 2013
17 Caroline Hoefferie, British Student Activism in the Long Sixties, Routledge, 2013, p. 188
18 Robert Crawford, ‘The Crown’, in Caroline McCracken-Flesher (ed.), Culture, Nation and the New Scottish Parliament, Bucknell University Press, 2007, p. 241
19 Ibid.
20 Caroline Hoefferie, British Student Activism in the Long Sixties, p. 198
21 Leslie Sklair, ‘The Struggle Against the Housing Finance Act’, in Ralph Miliband and John Saville (eds), Socialist Register, Merlin, 1975, p. 258
22 Ibid., p. 261
23 Frances Wood, ‘Scottish Labour in Government and Opposition: 1964–1979’, p. 113
24 Neil Davidson, ‘In Perspective: Tom Nairn’, Socialist Review, March 1999, http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj82/davidson.htm, accessed 19 May 2013
25 Dave Sherry, ‘The Present Is History’, in Laurie Flynn (ed.), We Shall Be All: Recent Chapters in the History of Working Class Struggle in Scotland, Bookmarks, 1978, pp. 50–52
26 Andy Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 1970s, Faber and Faber, 2009, p. 196
27 Ibid., p. 197
28 Scotsman, 20 May 2013
29 Andy Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 1970s, p. 200
30 Frances Wood, ‘Scottish Labour in Government and Opposition: 1964–1979’, pp. 114–15
31 Ibid., pp. 115–18
32 Ibid., pp. 120–29
33 William Knox, An Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society in Scotland, 1800–Present, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, p. 304
34 Andy Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 1970s, pp. 502–5
35 Esther Breitenbach, ‘Feminist Politics in Scotland from the 1970s to 2005’, in Pat Thane and Esther Breitenbach (eds), Women and Citizenship in Britain and Ireland in the 20th Century: What Difference Did the Vote Make?, Continuum, 2010, p. 154
36 Private correspondence, October 2013
37 Ibid.
38 Mark Kirby et al., Sociology in Perspective, Heinemann, 2000, p. 86
39 Roger Davidson and Gayle Davis, The Sexual State: Sexuality and Scottish Governance, 1950–80, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, p. 75
14. The Thatcher Years
1 T. M. Devine, The Scottish Nation 1700–2000, p. 594
2 ‘Fighting Plant Closure – Women in the Plessey Occupation 1982’, http://libcom.org/history/fighting-plant-closure-women-plessey-occupation-1982, accessed 9 October 2012
3 Ibid.
4 Reevel Alderson, ‘Lee Jeans Women Remember Seven-Month Sit-in Success’, BBC News Scotland, February 2011, bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12366211, accessed 1 October 2012
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Pat Clark, ‘The 1981 Lee Jeans Occupation: Women Showed How to Win, Socialist Worker, 26 March 2005
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Reevel Alderson, ‘Lee Jeans Women Remember Seven-Month Sit-in Success’
11 Ibid.
12 ‘Nostalgia: Henry Robb Shipyard Strike’, scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/features/nostalgia/nostalgia-henry-robb-shipyard-strike-1-2881055, accessed 23 April 2013
13 Andrew Taylor, The NUM and British Politics, Ashgate, 2005, p. 188
14 Times, 11 and 19 February 1981
15 Scottish Miner, February 1981
16 Economist, 21 February 1981
17 Times, 24 and 27 November 1982
18 Glasgow Herald, 14 May 1983
19 Times, 21 June 1983.
20 Terry Brotherstone and Simon Pirani, ‘Were There Alternatives? Movements from Below in the Scottish Coalfield, the Communist Party, and the Development of Thatcherism, 1981–1985’, Critique, 36 (2005), p. 110
21 Glasgow Herald, 15 September 1983
22 Glasgow Herald, 16 and 21 September 1983; Scotsman, 14 October 1983
23 Glasgow Herald, 24 September 1983.
24 Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons, The Great Strike: the Miners’ Strike of 1984–5 and Its Lessons, Socialist Worker Publications, 1995, p. 43
25 Ibid., p. 46
26 Ibid., p. 41
27 Ibid., p. 109
28 ‘Miners Strike over Threatened Pit Closures’, BBC On This Day, 12 March 1984, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_2540000/2540175.stm, accessed 22 May 2013
29 Martin Adeney and John Lloyd, The Miners Strike 1984–1985: Loss Without Honour, Routledge, 1988, p. 96
30 Jon Winterton and Ruth Winterton, Coal, Crisis and Coalfield: The 1984–1985 Miners Strike in Yorkshire, p. 70
31 ‘25 Years On: Miners’ Strike Changed Course of My Life’, Glasgow Herald, 9 March 2009, heraldscotland.com/25-years-on-miners-strike-changed-course-of-my-life-1.904570
32 Robert Duncan, The Mine Workers, p. 259
33 Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons, The Great Strike: The Miners’ Strike of 1984–5 and Its Lessons, p. 15
34 Ibid., p. 88
35 Joan Burnie, ‘The pits are gone … but the ghosts from 1984 still haunt Fallin’, Daily Record, 4 March 2004, thefreelibrary.com/The+pits+are+gone+..+but+the+ghosts+from+1984+still+haunt+FALLIN.-a0113890069, accessed 20 May 2013
36 Robert Duncan, The Mine Workers, p. 265
37 Ibid.
38 Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons, The Great Strike: The Miners’ Strike of 1984–5 and Its Lessons
, pp. 86–92
39 Robert Duncan, The Mine Workers, p. 263
40 Joan Burnie, ‘The pits are gone … but the ghosts from 1984 still haunt Fallin’
41 Ibid.
42 Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons, The Great Strike: The Miners’ Strike of 1984–5 and Its Lessons, p. 9
43 Guardian, 17 April 2013
44 Los Angeles Times, 22 March 1987, http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-22/news/mn-14818_1_plants-workers-occupy, accessed 8 October 2012
45 Ibid.
46 Charles Woolfson and John Foster, Track Record: The Story of the Caterpillar Occupation, Verso, 1988, pp. 115–16 and p. 50
47 Ibid., pp. 50–51
48 Ibid., pp. 115–16
49 ‘25 Years On: Workers Look Back on Caterpillar Factory Sit in’, http://concretehelper.com/25-years-on-workers-look-back-on-caterpillar-factory-sit-in/, accessed 22 May 2012
50 Charles Woolfson and John Foster, Track Record: The Story of the Caterpillar Occupation, p. 264
51 Bernadette Meaden, Protest for Peace, Wild Goose Publications, 1999, p. 30
52 Ibid., pp. 32–33
53 Mary-Wynne Ashford, Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War, New Society Publishers, 2006, pp. 80–81
54 Norman Stone, ‘Can the Tories Govern Scotland?’, Sunday Telegraph, 14 June 1987
55 Ewen Cameron, Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland Since 1880, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 322
56 Ibid.
57 Michael Lavalette and Gerry Mooney, ‘“No Poll Tax Here”: The Tories, Social Policy and the Great Poll Tax Rebellion’, in Michael Lavalette and Gerry Mooney (eds), Class Struggle and Social Welfare, Routledge, 2013, p. 213
58 Ibid.
59 Ibid., p. 217
60 Ibid., p. 218
61 Ibid., p. 219
62 Ibid.
63 Ibid.
64 Glasgow Herald, 14 November 1989
65 Ian MacWhirter, ‘That Bloody Woman’, New Statesman, 26 February 2009
66 Ian MacWhirter, ‘Will Scotland Rise Up Against “English” Tory Rule?’ 10 October 2009, http://iainmacwhirter2.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/will-scotland-rise-up-against-english.html, accessed 23 May 2013
67 Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins, Self and Nation, SAGE, 2001, p. 194
68 Ibid., p. 195
69 Neal Ascherson, ‘The Warnings That Scotland’s Patient Nationalism Could Turn Nasty’, Independent on Sunday, 21 November 1993, independent.co.uk/voices/the-warnings-that-scotlands-patient-nationalism-could-turn-nasty-1505824.html, accessed 23 May 2013
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