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On Monday, 31st of January, 1994, Glasgow Anarchist Group organised a meeting cum social to celebrate the 75 years of Black Friday. Black Friday was a police provoked riot of 30 000 Glasgow Strikers who had attended a meeting in George Square. The strike was for a 40 hour week. The police baton charged the crowd (using the excuse they were blocking a tram) but the strikers stood firm and fought back. The police ran for it with the strikers in hot pursuit. Around 40 people attended the meeting, hearing how the strike had been organised by shop stewards committees (made up of mandated delegates from workplaces) against the wishes of the trade union officials. The Trade unions tried to stop the strike spreading and succeeded in isolating the militant areas. The unions played their usual role of controllers, not organisers. Speakers pointed out the role of anarchists and syndicalists in these events and how the conclusions drawn from these and earlier struggles were anarchist in content (ie anti-parliamentarian, direct action, decentralisation, anti- leader and so on) and were echoed across the world in the other revolutionary struggles going on at the time (eg the politics of the German Communist Workers Party, the rise of the syndicalist unions and anarchist groups in Spain and Italy and so forth). In addition, they showed how the influence of Lenin and the Bolsheviks side tracked the revolutionary movement into the dead end of Leninism and the Communist Parties. In addition they was discussion, music and poetry. A good night was had by all.