Glasgow has a great tradition of working class education in revolutionary politics stretching back to the days of John Maclean. Glasgow Celtic fans, it seems, are carrying on this tradition.
Apparently the fans have been giving SWP members intensive on-the-spot lessons in revolutionary politics outside Celtic football ground. The fans, according to reports, have used time-honoured proletarian means to drive home forcefully some basic points about support for the national liberation struggle in Ireland. These lessons, it seems, have left some SWP members a little shaken (though not stirred).
The fans conducting these lessons have described themselves as RCG members. We are heartened to see that anti-imperialist workers in Glasgow identify themselves with the RCG, but must point out that the fans in question are not members of the RCG. Although they have clearly understood the importance of fighting opportunism.
FRFI 7 November/December 1980
