After Over 130 Years or More the Marxist Fantasy Continues to Haunt Glasgow.
The Marxists in Glasgow want to resurrect the old 'Red Clyde' of the 1920's and the 1930's, once a stronghold of the Communist Party amongst the working class districts of the city and later a solid base for the Labour Party before thousands of Glaswegian voters defected to supporting the SNP.
Now it seems that the Marxist Left in the city want to return to the past fantasy of the 'Red Clyde' when Communist agitators and Marxist-Leninist demagogues ruled the trade unions on Clyde side and sought to create a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' in the impoverished districts of Glasgow.
Now it is the over-indulged, middle-class 'progressives' of south Glasgow that are seeking to build that egalitarian utopia.
‘We need a revolution in society’: inside Glasgow’s socialist Red Sunday School
Socialist Sunday schools first emerged as a secular alternative to mainstream education. A century later, the Red Sunday School is back teaching anti-capitalist, anti-racist solidarity to kids in the Southside.
Anita Bhadani
The above statement from December 2022 spells out the motivation behind those 'adults' re-creating the so-called ~"Socialist Sunday schools" - which had died away in the early 1980's.
The Red Sunday School was launched in 2021 and has already drawn negative media attention in October 2023 by its publication of a magazine supporting Palestine and the struggle in Gaza.
Even the Red Sunday School promotional statements on-line are coloured red.
We are a group of activists, educators, parents, carers and cultural workers who, inspired by the history of the Socialist Sunday School movement, aim to reestablish a similar network of schools. From 1890–1980 Glasgow was one of the heartlands of the Socialist Sunday School movement, which aimed to ‘teach children to think for themselves, feel themselves part of the great community of workers, and supply the Socialist movement with fearless, capable and conscientious thinkers.’ Children took part in the running of the schools, contributed to the curriculum, chaired meetings and recorded minutes and decisions. The Socialist Sunday Schools were a central part of the city’s flourishing socialist culture and trained some of its greatest organisers.
NOTE: The Classic Cultural Marxist language being used here.....
Red Sunday School is a space for children and young people to think for themselves, play with freedom, question the world around them, and change it. Organised on the principles of socialism and solidarity, the School provides tools and resources for the creative exploration of nature, culture and society from a radical perspective, and encourages active participation in the great struggles of our day: anti-racism, the climate crisis, feminism, and the revolutionary transformation of capitalism. Red Sunday School sets out to be an antidote to current mainstream education focused on producing workers ready to compete in the marketplace, regardless of the mental and physical costs to young people.
There are Plenty of 'Progressive' values (Woke) providing motivation for the youngsters being drawn into this organisation.
Our organisation
Red Sunday School is a secular, non-party affiliated organisation. A committee exists to run a monthly socialist school for children, a community meal, a lending library of radical children’s literature, and trips to the countryside. The committee will eventually help form a children’s committee that is able to advise the school.
Pictured above: The Red Sunday School magazine that caught the attention of the national newspapers.
Although it is a 'Sunday school' the narrative is "secular" - that is non-religious and the narrative is blatantly Leftist.
