Defend the right to protest in Glasgow!
Officials of Glasgow’s Labour City Council are recommending that the Scottish TUC’s anti-austerity demonstration of 20 October should not be allowed to assemble in George Square in the city centre. A “consultation exercise” currently being run by the Council also proposes that demonstrations should be replaced by “static protests” wherever possible, and that there should be a blanket ban on the use of George Square as a muster and dispersal point for demonstrations. Such recommendations represent a drastic curtailment on the right to demonstrate: By definition, the purpose of a demonstration...