one like a climber to see the film so the world to save the sure after all and i just make fudge and confirmed this the bruce will be seen in 5 cinemas including so the world will be in iowa bill formed so it just shows you the public demand on the books over. you can have a considerable effect 100 years ago what you class got lead erupted in a protest which the government to be feared would develop 7 into post a big revolution alex takes up the story with form a scottish justice secretary kenny macaskill who's published a book on the extraordinary events of classical 199-1917 russia failed to the red revolution in 1800 in the german high fleet new to the keel helping to end the 1st world war but in 1990 was glasgow close to a bolshevik revolution 70 that was the view of the then sent to state for scotland and the former scottish justice minister kenny macaskill written

a book about it so hopeless was glasgow 100 years ago to leading a revolution well i don't think it was ever going to be a bolshevik revolution but it was certainly our mail storm and i have to see in researching the book i came to the conclusion we tend to think of the armistice day that when the guns fell silent in november 1900 the world must of been very peaceful and it was far from not because in january 1900 there was a war going on as the bolshevik revolution was fighting for its very survival with allied armies attacking russia and russia attacking poland ireland had just seen that a target of a majority the doily even had been established in the board of independence was about to be count overhanging all lot of great spanish flu pandemic was coming and and finally is demob soldiers were. going home the specter of mass unemployment in a community that was already written with with poverty was frightening people who did. what had gone before so it wasn't peaceful times in 1900 it was very stressful

radical times which is what resulted in 10000 soldiers on the streets of blasko guns being paraded in and tanks being pleaded in the center of the way as they had time mobilized by the government into the george square tanks were brought up the following day 10000 soldiers were brought from all across scotland to prevent basically the situation escalating there had been a major of the strike had been ongoing all week and crowds had been gobbling and then as how often happens there was no real reason quiet to multan a crowd and it can best be described as a police riot police attacked the crowd but when the code was 20000 writing 240000 beyond the and many of them would accept us meant they toned and it be fair to see the best of the police and this was a demonstration about an ongoing industrial dispute in georgia square in glasgow right outside the city chambers which developed into a quite literally

a riot because the the riot act was read all the taped to the least to be read there were mass baton charges by the police and the cloud and then charged by the close of the police there were members of parliament caught up in the flak of the blood didn't gore everywhere. how death could such a thing happen well it had been climbed for the war cabinet had been meeting the troops had been raided the tanks were prepared because they had been worried about the scale of the industrial action because this was a strait that had started with limited support but it was taking off in the days when you could still have flying pickets and when industrial sites were next to each other and employed tens of thousands of people were coming in what can the engineering works in glasgow and there was huge concern so that the aim of the industrial action was fought for 40 a week which was released this was a pretty radical demand well i'd say i think in the days in which we work when people are living in this so-called get caught. i mean people would buy your hand

off for a week it's strange to think that that's what straight was for it wasn't for an improvement in wages it was for a 40 hour week cannot wasn't so that they could get more leisure time because he realized that the really millions of soldiers being demobilized who were coming back and want to do jobs and these people had lived through unemployment and the poverty hunger that waited with it so they additionally one states had been a suggestion of a $32.00 week but it was a 40 hour week to spread the barton get people into work and it was taking off there was a straight not just in glasgow belfast else we have england but glasgow was the probably the very epicenter and that's why the troops were ready because there was militancy in the air strikes were threatened or could have the same just states description of this the demonstrate of the organized campaign of a b m bolshevik revolution of an attempted revolution that was to feel the demonstrators but it wasn't the folks some phone dish and because this was

a highly organized campaign well before the communist party had been alleged could see it was communist led many of the people running it or what was called the clade workers committee they were british socialist party some of whom went into the labor party but moved actually ended up in the in the in the communist party of great britain to be formed several years later willie gallacher becoming the m.p. mcmanus the only thing britain in scott to be entailed in the walls of the kremlin they were there they were industrial militants and had been deported from glasgow and some had been jailed judy in the war for industrial militancy so there was a clear threat it was perceived as bolshevik because there was great support for it and indeed i think we shouldn't underestimate the could send the authorities had because after all glasgow troops were confined to barracks locked in a media hell that would be the highlight and it was in july that was the glasgow regiment wasn't it and indeed was they weren't really one to be on the streets with the guns in case they pointed. on the next they were locked in the not alive don't

and all across scotland those from the west of scotland were lined up and told to stand on because they didn't trust them to actually from their guns and their fellow citizens i think it was always unlikely that it would have spread beyond died but the scale of the state was significant and i think what's all forgotten and tried to get across in the the strike was lost people went by but actually within a very short space of time you had an election in 1922 when the independent labor party which was left wing and more distinct than the labor party switch coalmining 10 or 15 seats in the city of law school because when we're used to thinking about the liberal party it's a fairly monolithic union. or be it with some still limited label co-op members we don't realise then that the was much more divest of the with the labor movement and when it comes to electoral politics it was people standing for the labor party people standing a little co-op people standing for the independently of buffet people even standing

as communists with labor party support so it's much more diverse than the electoral sense and how will these various groups competing for the influence and the industrials well 1800 was the 1st time when we had an election on the more modern universal franchise people often forget that many of these young men that went away to get slaughtered in the fields of flanders had been denied the right to vote and had had no c. in the election and the government that put them into war in 1900 was the 1st time when the dean lation in the food franchise from maine not yet for women and not was to change and also that change politics because up until then the labor movement and glasgow had been much more white or been much more of a social thing and there was everything from socialist sunday schools to socialist squires it became much more focused on political parties and to mean feds came through the communist party and i o p. it is to some extent glasgow was primarily

an i o. piece city ultimately managed in the main with the labor party but it was distinct it was much more scottish very much rooted in scotland and much more left wing than the mainstream labor party so had been some of these big personalities who became hosts or names of scottish politics and 3 years later swept on to many constituencies in the 1922 election i will be placed in this riot and george square where many of them or the other and i think it's also important than what i had realised when i started that he said the industrial workers were vital before it was just ties and probably more important was what had been happening in the community because when the main were fighting the engineering what's in the shipyards for the right to walk and for the rate to better pay and conditions in and juiced hours women were opposing rate of actions rent rises in inventions and that was driven primarily by women because i mean what we've been hearing about she was recently unveiled absolutely long overdue that that should should be unveiled

to her and in many ways that was more important because they generated in the community and they have deleted they are so glad it was a joining the war not just in terms of what was happening in the factories but was happening in the communities because rent restrictions and rent laws for the whole of the u.k. were brought in because of the pressure of happened in glasgow where the women organize rent strakes opposed the victuals demonstrations took place and to some extent before even the problem in the january 1900 the strike what it wanted the government most was the coolest thing of the women in the communities with the man in the factories how many school school kids if you said school child and was good to be you said 100 years ago in your city there was. almost a bolshevik revolution how many would know what f. you were talking about it was tragic we don't know what has 3 in the. us that's

come about by design not by accident the other thing if you'll indulge me i remember i had realised that because we've gone through all the celebrations of world war one but i never saw mention in juden 1917 lloyd george being become the prime minister a few months before was to be given the freedom of the city of glasgow and invited him up and the demonstrations against him were to such an extent that to be able to speak it acquired a military escort to get to the hall because crimes were chasing rather than stations in glasgow this was the 2nd city of the british empire that was important the most important city in terms of munitions for the british army in its fight and the prime minister was hostilely you know poorest by thousands of them so far it is rather who absolutely i'm going to see nobody told of the opposition as well as the support for the war that existed but the radical his thirty's there to be untold and there's

a lot more to come out so i'm glad to plead my part to long with others will certainly have made a very to come to be and thank you and once you're going to. join us after the break when we'll contrast the campaign of 100 years ago with an n.q.t. martin protest the persistent attempt to stop the project with seeding. for years down the presses metals markets is undeniably manipulated by the same people who are printing all the money because they don't want gold to rise up and attract to cap it all while they're trying to pump the big money all the u.s. dollar now why big point is important is unlike all the big points you can call their base layer of collateral during what trace matter would call.

my son doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abusers started going after the users in the prison population. we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs. there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. this is a stick from the water bottle found in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles

of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has promised to reuse the plastic. and may let. their plastic. special projects funding me. on that is the end of it for the team but for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. welcome back the campaign against a chance to foster a life has been running since the realisation that many communities would be greatly impacted by the huge building works involved in t.v. shows we've examined the campaign at grassroots level alex invited from the campiness back to the studio to discuss the new technique 50 ploy to the weather

with huge project cost rises and card political debates they just might be within touching distance of success. joy and welcome to the alex i want to thank you. part of the stop it says to coalition but you both gave them a different type of protest using our as a means of getting your message across a bit so obviously when did you start the still an in part 2 you're hardly well i am i think we are having some impact at doing a protest arts we started out putting scarves on trees that was our very 1st art that we were doing hands in this it's that people had made locally and we put them on the trees of the little sign that said this tree is going to be cut down and the reason why was because of h.s.t. and so people understood what was going to happen in the area where a lot of people had no clue so we even after

a few years of be putting things out and people would say oh i didn't know i started in rare the rafters you think more to the level of a leaflet but yeah people tend to just throw away or they don't want to know why so many people are giving out leaflets saying we have tried that as well over the years but we have found that the scarves are more important because if we're taking pictures putting them on twitter or even if the let the labels have fallen off that said why they were there people were saying oh what's this about and putting that on twitter on social media and it was getting some publicity so that was the start of it but don you've been almost 2 and after still residents for some he'll snow and it has to protest but love what's been your most effect of piece of artistic communication well much like what joe is describing here i think what we needed what every campaign needs at this is something which locates it visually and connecting imagery with the site of the of the h s 2 campaign which for us was this

used in part gardens of the dutch side of the station so our campaign or to the more involvement was very focused on that area of land this is a. glidden belt area under fire because of the chest to construction that's right it happens to be on the on the most polluted road in europe and the only stretch apart land which is which is small and modest but it has a present huge about 4 fold and people use it in this little mini way cistern in a very busy busy part of london to get away that argument just to proponents with the said look we're building the railway this will get people off the roads and stop polluting the police car because if you take a loss of of green built to to achieve this project well in this particular case i mean that's a microcosm of the green belt was going to be absorbed by it just because we're going to they still plan to remove it and create this temporary taxi that park storage which has been there for over 300 years to be axed for the sake of

a temperature actually running seems to me very very careless and not to think about big pictures really i think this is this is. something which could have been very easily avoided joe i'm interested in how you come up with good ideas and when the other kind of collective to come forward with the next stylist i think everything is very organic actually so they'll be that one person in the community will think of something. that is how we've started i mean with the player there comes in people's theatre i've been involved with them since 2012 when i 1st went in and asked them if they would like to have a table as our community fund day which was called restrain the train and that was about telling people about a test too and that was the 1st part that we lost which was st james gardens beautiful beautiful place huge trays and since then they artistic director brian logan has come to every little purchase that there's been you know coming through has been very involved with things locally and the camden papers there says just

around the corner from st james' gardens hay is brought back to life one of the dead from st john's gardens am revolutionary figure out how it will. this other bag of the people but all the bodies which were being distant from the store was this one of the characters yes it would have who's who's being unfairly and then simply removed i was arrested which has 2 a saying now that there's $63000.00 bodies but 63063000 which is a little bit more than we thought it was going to gruesome so we will be good to go well that's the problem we still don't know and as far as i know the vicar of st pancras who has care for the souls of the dead she still hasn't been told so we are concerned about that and legally every chance to just sort of build those to give yards of folk to look at a hollow devoted of sight the protection no we wish there was i mean the church to petition parliament as did lots of us individually about this but once they have

got the bill went through so that the act they can do what they like basically. has become a mother should religion and holloed glowed and that's been quite important as part of your protests yes so st pancras church which is just across the road from euston station since they have cut down the trees on half of euston square gardens and tom over and it's cut down the trees in st james gardens just around the corner and the cripps of the church is now getting very very damp we think that the water table is rising and part of the basement of the church has got water in that all the time so we think that the cutting of down of the trees is causing this problem for the church as an unintended consequence of the removal of the trees yes absolutely the vampy was this also you know but really inventive love to go and see the sure love the stick endeavor question is does it work can you clear up any success from these years of of innovative company as well before i was involved with the it just to

campaign i was invited by a man called rob roy who's a he was involved in the campaign chef it was a much much greater exodus. trees being cut down from the city but i was asked to go and sort of visualize in the trees give them personalities and i did these portraits of a selection of them and we organized a great big paint out day for hundreds of people who took part so that campaign one of 2 years and they've stopped that they're not going to cut the trees down to more no they're not saying it's the direct result of that but all of these small contributions that the community plays a part in very actively proactively is what contributes a war of attrition you have to grind the whole process done and i think with a lot of these campaigns they have to have to be seen to be serious i think a lot of people they have got to convince that there's no no i'm sticking around i'm not here just for the day you know i think that with campaigns at this particular what we were doing we focused very specifically on small areas of the landscape which people engage with day to day and we said this is this area you

when you walk through this every day it's your responsibility to have a think at least as to what you can do to help the question of or didn't obviously political lot of campaign that has a long and glorious history. but the other thing that as an artist the an element of compromise when you're associating it up with a cause or do you think you know that's one of the things are should be both well let's take for example one of most famous paintings history guernica bypass or that was a protest picture that was a picture about the bombing of a an area which he which he found actually appalling and what's that take him to another pain sitting behind a desk in nature and it's become the emblem of anti war so if you ask me but i think from the greatest paintings are made with but actually to do was to do with the protests in some way or other joel. infest this divide there's the public through their view of the of the asking the question of what exactly is this is one of the handbags that i make which has to do with process and this one particularly

is about our st james' gardens in euston so when people see me with this bag they always say oh that's a lovely handbag or they say what is that about it be surprise the people from all walks of life. you will sort of see a handbag you would expect a man to ask about how they day and that is a great way of getting a message face just very flat out lee i've just done and i'm glad of it now i understand obviously you've chosen your means of communication and your route of protest through art and very interesting is to about how do you more belies opinion in a liberal democracy we can see that france. yellow face on an on going riots with the climate meds and see the world willing to stop the traffic you to engaging for through your op you have a point of order is a case of you left the flow as blatant. try lots of things to engage lots of people i think that's the best way to try out things here and be today you know get people

engaged you say in other things which will interest them by diversion and then suddenly find yourself with an audience and you know it does take time and think it like we was saying on this particular cause we've been at it for 2 years now. some of us not all up you know monkey in my part the play is minimal compared to other some people have been every single day having engagement and that's one person slowly putting their word out so i think you know that it is as with anything you require an audience to grow the audience has to feel they are directly contributing or being part of something of a cause. and that something which is as bizarre for you have to you know if the chip away at the block and it definitely takes time and of course in my experience people enjoy protests for those who have engaged in the politics or the politics of protest the center unusual thing to say but the question that people think they can gauge their a campaign that the do all sorts of things are never thought they would do to and the there's a real camaraderie and so the it is

a protest is good for the soul of the protest in terms. of humidity if you go to jail is because i mean this in sheffield in particular i witnessed that when a. when i was back in for that every time i got back the number of people who grow who are involved all of the streets meet up very regularly they create a new groups of friends friendships of people which they've never had before and suddenly find the whole community up in arms about this and this is people creating their own forging out their own lives because of the because of the campaign because of the act of protest and it does it does point people with an absolutely it does give people a common cause they come together and that's it isn't this creates a very strong bond as a well done joe i can't stop chess to for you but what i can do is present you with the exam and quit for appearing on the show from now if you parse out what to do with. the drill is quite simple it's whiskey only scotch whiskey not well nothing and nothing not even welsh. and the quick and past roan and you're many friends

with performance or watching are a work of art. and enjoy the camaraderie so thank you so much thank you so much with 21 of these you know you've got one thing. as we have seen in banks of britain the age of mass protest is far from dead hundreds of thousands have been on the streets never arrived here protests the causes have been as varied as the tactics used the people's vote was a classic demonstration and short stake the climate emergency campaign employed peaceful died it action while the anti trump protest had more success when lumping the prickly portis. a century ago a mass demonstration in george great in glasgow was met with the rise tax rate tanks at the ready on top of martial law however is that too far to move from the response to the show in paris at the moment is so present micro might reflect that the ringleaders of the class we can demonstrate just may have had sore heads on the

d. a century ago but many of them ended up being elected to the house of commons the police response in the u.k. is rather more city with metropolitan police officers under attack from stuffy establishment newspapers and in peace for fraternizing with the entirely peaceful but very destructive climate emergency campaigners in a previous show alex interviewed the finder of rock against faces in red so injures whose originality in the 1970 set the template for many campaigns that have followed the process is more varied in this more than age social media has opened up new opportunities but has also made mass organization much easier to bolster traditional marches and rallies however it one person protests critically deployed to the social media can reach an audience tonight even the largest demonstration of 50 years ago. and i lost focus and they see these what all the contrast between these 2 approaches the mass marches currently taking place in favor scottish independence was one of the most adept and courageous single president put testers

of the last generation next week however we turn to cut into political scandal which has received surprisingly little attention the claim that 1000000 people were disenfranchised in the recent due to penal actions in the u.k. join us as we examine whether the right to vote itself is not pretty until then from alex that all of the team hit the show it's goodbye for now and to a fee you next week. as we speak large organized caravan are on the march to the united states.

there's 70 and a player coming out for carrying more are just wars remain sitting down. this is a virtual invasion of our country. but i'm at the end i thought of it but i'm going to get our foul and you know for nothing i'm going to or not but they are you know what. a nice shower. she'll do is you know we're going to see a more little girls you know want to see the show for a player for too low for doubt. the. during the great depression which are old enough to remember there was most of the family were working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective

listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no on. one set of rules for the rich ops it's a real shame. that's what happens when you put her into the. narrow sector of wilf which rule is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

and he's paying his 1st visit to italy since 2015 to meet with the country's leaders on the side of the pope also to come this time germany's in the grip of a heatwave driving some people a little crazy it seems leading to violence and swimming pools and iran warns the u.s. not to start a fire if it can handle the consequences off the trombone the islamic republic not to play with fire by increasing enrichment. they know what to do and they know what they're playing with i think they're playing with fire this thing for the us to do so correct it's a mistake washington is afraid of the wood fire you can start one.