Tom Murray

General Strike 1926

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Despite the demise of the Soviet Union, the Russian Revolution of 1917 lingers in the collective memory of the people of Scotland. Many Scottish schoolchildren studying history are taught a module on ‘Lenin and the Bolsheviks’, and the term ‘Bolshi’ persists in everyday language. The People’s Palace Museum in Glasgow is home […]

Perthshire International Brigades Volunteers ~ Spanish Civil War, 1936-9

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They clung like burrs to the long express that lurch Through the unjust lands, through the night, through the alpine tunnel. They floated over the oceans; They walked the passes; they came to present their lives. W.H. Auden, Spain 1937 Perthshire and the Spanish Civil War George Bisset, Edward Rae […]