workingclasshistory:On this day, 13 April 1916, the Glasgow Corporation introduced a bylaw restricti
workingclasshistory:On this day, 13 April 1916, the Glasgow Corporation introduced a bylaw restricting the right of free assembly. From 1922, the law started being enforced to prevent working class and radical meetings on Glasgow Green, and the struggle for free speech began. Over the next decade protests were organised, meetings were held in defiance of the law, and speakers arrested and jailed, while crowds of up to 100,000 fought the police, rioted and looted shops until eventually the law was overturned. This is a short history of the struggle: https://ift.tt/2oKL7nG Pictured: a later gathering on Glasgow green during the Spanish civil war https://ift.tt/2qtads1 -- source link