tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945189052610251725.post7622100343995419651..comments2023-09-08T08:19:25.155-07:00Comments on Glasgow Defence Campaign: Hands off George Square: defending democratic rights – Report of Public MeetingMiriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07902280646995851150noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945189052610251725.post-23582879908997658422012-10-29T15:12:53.268-07:002012-10-29T15:12:53.268-07:00http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/oct/26/...http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/oct/26/golden-dawn-greece-police-video<br /><br /><br />Facists used to divide greek working classAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246191686789100591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945189052610251725.post-60375668831151312922012-10-24T14:07:03.321-07:002012-10-24T14:07:03.321-07:00For information' here is the link to a speech ...For information' here is the link to a speech given by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! detailing Connolly's early stand for Free Speech in Dundee http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/scotland/1901-james-connolly-a-rebel-till-the-end . Also see <br />'In this period too, MacLean demonstrated his brave and audacious attitude to police interference and intimidation. The battle for democratic rights; to speak and to organise, to hold meetings, distribute leaflets and papers is entirely bound up with the battle for socialism. How familiar to socialists and activists is this situation from 1904? The police had refused permission for the SDF to use a central square in Greenock and suggested an alternative away from the crowds. MacLean was having none of it and went ahead in any case; attracting large numbers of folk. The police did nothing.' at http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/scotland/1972-john-maclean-part-i-battlepost-of-the-poor-frfi-146-dec-1998-1999<br /><br />Dundee Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!Ellen Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05360875898947972933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945189052610251725.post-51358389950484350742012-10-24T10:29:02.861-07:002012-10-24T10:29:02.861-07:00Just skimmed that article above comrade. In Dundee...Just skimmed that article above comrade. In Dundee during the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1980-1981 the cops were determined to stop our use of the very central City Square for solidarity protests and street meetings. We in the Dundee Irish Solidarity Campaign took them on, building for successful Defend Free Speech events there. We discovered that the by- laws actually protected unlicensed use of the area for 'trade disputes and political purposes within the city'. All charges were dropped! However, we did debate whether fighting for specific 'Free Speech' areas was useful then as we were rightly wary of such places being identified and for us to be limited to them. No doubt the authorities would have found anyone a nice, quiet, out of the way place! Years later we learned that not only had James Connolly joined the socialist movement in Dundee but that he had led a major Free Speech battle there when magistrates banned demonstrations and meetings in the High Street. Victory was assured when 20,000 were mobilised! Now that's a protest!Ellen Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05360875898947972933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945189052610251725.post-30620756319143657852012-10-21T05:10:45.428-07:002012-10-21T05:10:45.428-07:00Glasgow citizens have already one memorable victor...Glasgow citizens have already one memorable victory against the council when it tried to ban public speaking at Glasgow Green. See http://www.radicalglasgow.me.uk/strugglepedia/index.php?title=Fight_for_Freedom_of_Speech_on_the_Green.<br />We can learn from that battle and win this one.ann arkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06922062627756737185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945189052610251725.post-6926926848426756282012-10-19T06:47:30.662-07:002012-10-19T06:47:30.662-07:00Great stuff brothers and sisters! No accident that...Great stuff brothers and sisters! No accident that it was in city squares that the movements of the Arab Spring were born and that from Greece to Spain and Portugal, these spaces were used as bases to organise the challenge to austerity and injustice. In the final analysis capitalism is just gangsterism after all!<br /><br />Michael MacGregor<br />Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!<br />DundeeEllen Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05360875898947972933noreply@blogger.com