Event

Red Skirts on Clydeside

Red Skirts on Clydeside

DATE PASSEDHosted By Take One Action Film Festival
Steps Theatre, Dundee Central Library, Dundee, DD1 1DB
08/11/2025/15:00 - 08/11/2025-17:30
Screening
In-person
to£20

Going between the living room, the archive, and the streets, this film traces the radical currents that have always run through Glasgow and politicised the home. Interviews with descendants of the strikers retell the stories of socialist Sunday schools, the women’s movement, and how to stop the police from evicting your neighbours (or even dump a sheriff in the midden). Appalled to have found women’s activism filed under ‘miscellaneous’ at the Marx Memorial Library, the filmmakers decided to set the record straight – and despite a systemic lack of documentation, it’s clear our movements today have much to learn from these Glasgow women’s tactics, resilience, and creativity. Living Rent Dundee will be running a post-screening workshop exploring the politics of home, and looking at how the domestic intersects with the political. Unlike workplace organising, community organising looks to your neighbours and your local area. In an increasingly splintered society, drawing on connections with neighbours can be a radical practice – these workshops will explore the practical steps of creating connections with your neighbours, organising as tenants and having open conversations around what community means.

https://www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-skirts-on-clydeside-dundee/