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The episode discusses the Red Clydeside movement and its impact on the Church of Scotland and working-class politics in early twentieth-century Glasgow.

Send us Fan Mail This week Bread and Rosaries takes a trip to Scotland to chat with student minister and PhD candidate, William Gibson, about Red Clydeside: the strikes, rent protests, anti-war organising, and radical politics of Glasgow in the early twentieth century. We also look at the Church of Scotland’s uneasy relationship with working-class struggle, social reconstruction, and capitalism itself, including why so much of the church’s witness seemed to drift away from the politics of jus...

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