ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits the anti-war movement on Clydeside to provide examples of the histories of resistance prominent throughout the First World War. The chapter considers three anti-war activists (James Maxton, Helen Crawfurd and Guy Aldred) to engage with the geographies of the movement. The analysis includes archival material relating to the Independent Labour Party, the suffrage movement, anarchist groups and trade unions to stress the diversity of movements that combined during their contestation of the war. This contestation went beyond a pacifist position and developed connections with other struggles, such as the 1915 rent strikes and protests relating to the general ‘cost of living crisis’ during the war. This broader and connected sense of discontent is further evident through the translocal links prominent in the lives of the ant-war activists considered. The chapter stresses this connectivity of the movement and particularly the spaces, places and practices of protest and solidarity that still resonate with the present.
