well i don't think it was ever going to be a bolshevik revolution but it was certainly a male storm and i have to see in reception the book i came to the conclusion we tend to think of the armistice day that when the guns fell silent to 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 . attacking russia and russia attacking poland ireland to just seen that a total of a majority the doily even had been established in the board of independence was about to be cut overhanging all lot of great spanish flu pandemic was coming in and finally is the most soldiers were. going home the specter of mass unemployment in a community that was already written with with poverty was frightening people who didn't realize 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

blago 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 to basically the situation escalating there had been a major strike could be known going all week and crowds had been gobbling a name as how often happens that was the real reason why it was a molten 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 best of the police and this was a demonstration about an ongoing industrial dispute and job script 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 flock of the blood didn't gore everywhere. how did after 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 employing tens of thousands people were coming in what can the engineering works in glasgow and there was huge concern that the aim of the industrial action was fought for 40 a week which was nice this was a pretty radical demand well i'd say i think in the days in which we worked when people are living in this so-called big economy and people would buy your hand off for a 40 hour 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 won states have been a suggestion of a 32 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 knots 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 though the demonstrate of the organized campaign of being bolshevik revolution of an attempted revolution that was to smeal the demonstrators but it wasn't a focus some phone dish and because this was a highly organized campaign well before the communist party had been alleged could say it was a communist led. many of the people running it were what was called the clyde

workers committee they were british socialist party some of whom went into the labor party but actually ended up in the in the in the communist party of great britain to be formed several years later really gallica becoming the m p s the only think britain in scott to be in tear down the walls of the kremlin they were they 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 that was perceived as bolshevik because there was great support for it and indeed i think we shouldn't underestimate the could stand 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 eli that was the glasgow regiment wasn't it and indeed was they wouldn't believe him to be on the streets with the guns in his they pointed in the wrong direction 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 don't because they didn't trust them to actually funded guns

in 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 it's all forgotten and tried to get across in the big 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 swept home winning 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 liberal 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 cool people standing for the independently of buffet people even standing as communists with labor party supports it was much more divest. in the electoral

sense and how will these various groups competing for for influence in 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 than the fields of flanders had been denied the right to vote and had had no see in the election the government that put them into war in $1800.00 was the 1st time when the dinner lay in the food franchise for maine not 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 squiers it became much more focused on political parties and to mean feds came through the communist party and peed because 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 have been some of these big personalities who became host sold millions of scottish politics and 3 years later swept into many constituencies in the 1922 election i will be placed in this riot and george square where many of the more vo 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 guys and probably more important was what had been happening in the community because when the main were fighting the engineering works in the shipyards for the right to walk and for the right to better pay and conditions in and juiced hours women were opposing rate of actions rent rises and inventions and that was driven primarily by women because when we both believe our she was recently unveiled absolutely long overdue that a stock should should be unveiled to her and in many ways that was more important because. they generated in the community and they had deleted their supplies 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 that happened in glasgow where the women organize rent strakes opposed the victims demonstrations took place and to some extent before even the problem in the january 1900 with a strike at one of the government most was the coolest thing of the women in the communities with the main in the factories how many schools 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 our own history in knots that's come about by design not by accident the other thing if you'll indulge me i don't remember i had realised that because we've gone through all the celebrations of

world war one but i never saw mention that in june 1917 lloyd george who'd been 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 he required a military escort to get to the hall because clothes were chasing that on stations in glasgow this was the 2nd city of the british empire that was important and the most important city in terms of munitions for the british army in its fight and the prime minister was hostilely you know a poorest by thousands of himself a little radical politician absolutely and as i say nobody told the thought that the opposition as well as the support for the war that existed but a radical history is there to be untold and there's a lot more to come out so i'm glad to have played my part to along with others was certainly a bit of a little contribution thank you very much again in a casket. join us after the break when will contrast the campaign of 100 years ago

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you and overtake you. and then the white people the stolen property and therefore it must be returned to black people. they get rid of whites only problems will go away. within the. presence of the flick of the little. white farmers in south africa every single day. people being tortured to death expression the elderly people in the. mania somebody. like these white horse will find themselves affected by a crowd and we. went to one of my teens in queens that's all sweats and a lot of. what are you going to have for dinner today we'll be asking for a nice cold civil war in south africa. he's even if it's. a

fair one was there any chunk in the power of your. public especially younger generation fed up with that well sort of test because i will start a test they fail to whiz a democratic reforms they are failing. economic reforms as well and when so russia come to sitting in a chair with a bit parliament german parliament of georgia it's made people simply mad to know because everyone realizes that this government has failed with everything and now they are allowing some russian combest to take seed to chair the gordon public comment where george anybody independence was actually declared.

your. welcome back the campaign against to foster has been running since he realized 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 some to campaign us back to the studio to discuss the new technique 50 ploys and whether with huge project cost rises and cunt political debates they just might be within touching

distance of success. joy and welcome to the it's i want to thank you. part of the stop it says to coalition that you both be doing 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 student what impact do you hope it well i am i think we are having some impact at doing 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 with a little sign that said this tree is going to be cut down and the reason why was because of h s 2 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 pushing things out and people would say oh i didn't know i

started in rare this without those you think more the fate of the middle of a leaflet world 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 stars are more important because if we're taking pictures putting them on twitter or even if the let the labels had fallen off that said why they were there people were saying oh what's this about and putting them 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 heel snow and it has to protest but love what's been your most effective 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 actors to campaign which for us was this used in part gardening to be dockside 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 system or in a very busy busy part of london the kind of way that argument just to proponents would have said look we're building a real way this will get people off the roads and stop polluting the police car because if you take a about 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 still plan to remove it and create this temporary tax event park story 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 would you think this is this is. something which could have been very easily avoided sure i'm interested in how you come up with good ideas and when the other kind of collective to come forward with the next i listed i think everything is very organic actually so they'll be that one person in the community will think of something. that's how we're start 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 testing 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 bain and you know coming through has been very involved with things locally and the camden papers there is 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 i'll tell

you it will. this other bag of the capital but all the bodies which were being distant from the store was this one of the characters yes it was there who's who's being unfairly and then simply removed i was arrested which has to 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 3 believe yards of folk to look at a holiday devoted of sight the protection you know we wish there was i mean the church to petition parliament as did lots of us individually about this but once they've got the bill went through so that the act they can do what they like

basically. has become a mother ship religion i'm hollowed glowed and it's been quite important as party approaches yes so st pancras cheche which is just across the road from euston station since they've cut down the trees on half of euston square gardens and tom that over and scott 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 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 move all the trees yes absolutely the vampy was this also you know but really inventive love to go and see the show all of the stick endeavor question is does it work can you clear up any success from these years of of innovative campion well before i was involved with the it just to campaign i was invited by

a man called rob roy who's that he was involved in the campaign chef it was a much much greater exodus. the trees being cut down from the city but i was asked to go and sort of busy lives from 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 the more you know that i'm 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 is war of attrition you have to grind the 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

a political lot of campaign that has a long haul glorious history. but the other thing that as an artist the an element of compromise when you're associating you know 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 area which he which he found actually appalling and what's that taking to another pain sitting behind a desk in nature has 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 tell me a bit 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 ask they 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 him but they day and that is a great way of getting a message stays just very flat oddly i've just done a lot of it and 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 france. yellow face on an on going riots with the clever mab's and see the willing to stop the traffic gauging through 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 of trying lots of things yeah 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 like we were saying on this particular cause we've been at it for 2 years now . and that's not all about you know monkey i mean my part of 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's something which is bizarre for but you have to you know if the chip away at the block and it definitely takes time and of course from my experience people enjoy protests from 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 the and the there's a real camaraderie and so the. a protest is good for the soul of the protesters

behind us we need to see if you go to jail you see because i mean this in sheffield in particular i witnessed that i mean a. again i was back in for that but every time i got back the number of people who grow who were 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 bind people have been absolutely it does give people a common cause they come together and that sort of is creates a very strong bond well done joe i can't stop jess to for you but if i can do is present you with the i'll examine quick for appearing on the show from now if you pass out when to do it on the trail is quite simple it's whiskey only scotch whiskey not well nothing nothing not even welsh. and the quake and past load and you're many friends with a performance of watching a work of art and enjoy the camaraderie so thank you so much thank you so much it's

always wanted when they know you got what they want to hear. as we have seen in banks of britain the age of mass protest is far from did hundreds of thousands have been on the streets never dieted protests the causes have been as varied as the tactics used the people's vote was a classic demonstration and short strength the climate emergency campaign employed peaceful direct action while the anti trump protest had most success when printing 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 really show in paris at the moment is so present micro might reflect that the ringleaders of the class region demonstrators 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 of old protest 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 last program in this see these what all the contrasts between these 2 approaches the mass marches currently taking place in favor of scottish independence was one of the most adept and courageous single person put testers of the last generation next week however we turn to

a current political scandal which has received surprisingly little attention the claim that 1000000 people were disenfranchised in the recent judith actions in the you. ok join us as we examine whether the right to vote itself is not in jeopardy until then from alex ourself and all of the team hit the show it's good bye for now and you'll see you next week thank. you. as we speak large organize care of

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