The Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (GHSA) is an evolving project to document, share and learn from our city’s long history of housing movements. The past decade has seen the emergence of tenant and community unions like Living Rent that continue this radical tradition, and the GHSA also aims to record this ‘history in the making’ by working with union members and organisers. We believe that social change happens most effectively when the working class gets to know – and tell – its own histories from below, and a core part of the GHSA’s project is to activate historical material through popular political education, discussions, workshops, walking tours, film screenings, exhibitions and publishing. We want to show how over a 150 years of rent strikes, demonstrations, occupations and campaigning people have fought and win in the city, and can continue to shape it today.
Current collective: Joey Simons, Kate Wilson, Kirsteen Paton, Kirsten Lloyd, Frances Lingard