by our Scottish political affairs correspondent

Supporters of the anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine joined a several thousand-strong march through the streets of Glasgow on May Day under the banners of Unison Scotland, Glasgow Trades Council and Unite the Union’s hospital sector.

They handed out leaflets against British support for the Zelensky regime and against the NATO war on Russia.

In what was one of the largest May Day marches seen in Glasgow in recent years, local unions and solidarity campaigns marched to the beat of the St Francis Pipe Band and the Unite Scotland Kinneil Band at the rally organised by the Glasgow Trades Council to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike and celebrate the power of the unions and the working class. There they heard a number of speakers, including the RMT’s Eddie Dempsey and Brian Leishman, the left Labour MP for Alloa & Grangemouth.

Suki Sangha, the chair of Glasgow Trades Union Council, said: “100 years ago, Glasgow’s working class were preparing for one of the greatest recorded acts of mass solidarity. Today, mainstream pol iticians are failing to understand and address the issues destroying the lives of working-class people. We are in the fight of our lives, and it is once again left to the trade union movement
in our workplaces and communities to promote the interests of our class and hold politicians of any brand to account.”