Wednesday's Red and Black Clydeside Poetry and Music night at Red Rosa's, was a great night of pleasant and sometimes moving entertainment. A great mix of guitar, banjo, mouthorgan, singing and poetry. If you missed it don't fret, there will be another one coming along soon. A big thank you to the performers and those who turned up to enjoy the night.
For May “Read of the Month” our choice is Insurrection, No’s 1 to 3, so once again Spirit of Revolt brings you three anarchist magazines to give you a wee insight to what we at Spirit of Revolt carry in our archive.The selection is from our Bratach Dubh Collection SOR 5-6-40. If you like what you read here, and live local to Glasgow, why not volunteer an hour or two a week to help with the scanning, listing etc. you would helping to digitise the largest anarchist libertarian socialist archive in Scotland, making the material free and easily available to the public We will cover your bus fares. Visit Spirit of Revolt Contact page.
A reminder that the next event by Red and Black Clydeside to mark May Week, will be the Poetry and Music Night at Red Rosa's, 195 London Road, Calton, Glasgow, May 3rd. A night to come and chat then settle down for some poetry and music, a pleasant night guaranteed.
Spirit of Revolt's May Day picnic on the Green, despite changing weather, can be counted as a success. Though not as many turned up as we would have liked, but the Workers Memorial display attracted lots of passers-by, and by the amount of literature that we managed to hand out, it certainly was a great success. We managed to distribute lots of Anarchist Critic, Glasgow Keelies, Red and Black Poetry night leaflets, Red and Black Bookfair and Gathering leaflets, Spirit of Revolt business cards, plus lots of Radical Glasgow History Project leaflets. Encouragingly they were all taken with some enthusiasm. A big thank you to all those who turned up.
Two further coming events to mark Red and Black Clydeside May Week
The crown, £2.5 million and gold trimmings could go some way to paying the nurses a decent increase.
May 6th. the UK enters a new era, we are expected to participate in a display that is reminiscent of Germany in the 30's where hordes were gather together to shout allegiance to the imposed leader Heil whoever, Heil whoever. In this case in UK the allegiance we are supposed to regurgitate is to someone who has unimaginable inherited wealth, power and privilege, and has never done a days work in his entire life. May 6th will mark the crowning of a privileged individual who because of his birth and the system of monarchy and imperialism that has festered in this country for centuries, lives in a bubble of opulence and privilege. The meaningless words that we are all supposed to shout out are "I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty" A crowning ceremony that will cost you and I £100 million of our tax money, while nurses and doctors are refused a wage that reflects there training, skill and dedication. All of who have worked very hard to get to the position they are in, unlike this pompous individual who will get everything free just because of his birth.
Will the people behave like sheep and shout Heil Charles, Heil Charles, or will they see through this circus, this edifice to British imperialism the bulwark of the system of power and privilege to the wealthy. Surely this shouting allegiance is so ridiculous so obvious a pantomime that the average person will have a laugh it its stupidity and instead shout Not My King, and work hard at seeing this whole pomp and ceremony of power and privilege ends up where it belongs, in the dustbin of history.
Glasgow Keelie 40 is now out and available for free on the streets at pickets, protests, rallies and marches. You'll also get your free copy in some pubs cafes etc, watch out for it a grab your free copy. As usual it is filled with info on events and meetings to help you get involved in the struggle for that better life for all, and of course digging the dirt on this corrupt and exploitative system that shackles us to the profit making machine for the few.
