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The People Protest, Glasgow 1990

THE RECKONING

BEYOND THE CULTURE CITY RIP OFF

Edited By Farquhar McLay

WORKERS CITY

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Acknowledgements

New Writing in Scotland No.5 for ‘last of the 7 Samurai’ by William Glenfedder.
New Statesman & Society August 1990 for ‘Storm in the Palace’ by James Kelman.
Variant Magazine No.2 where slightly altered version of Farquar McLay’s story ‘Working At It’ for appeared.
West Coast Magazine No.6 where Ian McKechnie’s poem ‘Night Moves’ was first printed.

Front cover photo: Scotland on Sunday


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Salvador Lally: Ascending to Heaven


Contents

Preface

Introduction

John Taylor Caldwell Childhood Years

William Gilfedder Eight Poems

Brendan McLaughlin Glasgow's Not For Sale

Freddy Anderson Lally

Hugh Savage Campaigns

James Kelman Storm in the Palace

Alasdair Gray A Friend Unfairly Treated

Freddy Anderson The Culture of Glasgow

J.N. Reilly Four Nocturnal Poems

Donald Anderson Whaur's Yer Culture Noo?

Norman Bissell Glasgow's Miles ... Out

Ned Donaldson Homes for the Needy

Ian McKechnie Night Moves

Robert Lynn Do It Yourself

James Kelman Subjective Account

Farquhar McLay Glasgow 1990

Jack Withers Two Poems

Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing

J.E. Maclnnes Two Stories

Farquhar McLay Working At It

Michael Donnelly Erased From History

James Kelman Art and Subsidy, and some politics of Culture City

James D. Young The May Day Celebrations in Scotland