Editing Glasgow (section)

===Government===
{{See also|Glasgow City Council}}

[[File:Glasgow City Chambers - geograph.org.uk - 4865332.jpg|thumb|right|[[Glasgow City Chambers]], located on [[George Square]], is the headquarters of Glasgow City Council and the seat of local government in the city, circa 1900.]]

Although Glasgow [[Municipal corporation|Corporation]] had been a pioneer in the [[Municipal socialism|municipal socialist]] movement from the late-nineteenth century, since the [[Representation of the People Act 1918]], Glasgow increasingly supported [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] ideas and politics at a national level. The [[Politics of Glasgow|city council]] was controlled by the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] for more than thirty years, since the decline of the [[Progressives (Scotland)|Progressives]]. Since 2007, when local government elections in Scotland began to use the [[single transferable vote]] rather than the [[First-past-the-post voting|first-past-the-post system]], the dominance of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] within the city started to decline. As a result of the [[2017 United Kingdom local elections]], the [[Scottish National Party|SNP]] was able to form a minority administration ending Labour's thirty-seven years of uninterrupted control.<ref>{{cite web|title=Councillor Eva Bolander chosen as Glasgow's Lord Provost|url=https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=21216|website=Glasgow City Council|access-date=20 May 2017|language=en|date=18 May 2017}}</ref>

In the aftermath of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917]] and the [[German Revolution of 1918–19]], the city's frequent strikes and militant organisations caused serious alarm at [[Her Majesty's Government|Westminster]]. A huge demonstration in the city's [[George Square]] on 31 January 1919 ended in violence, known as the [[Battle of George Square]], and the [[Riot Act]] was read. The Sheriff of Lanarkshire called for military aid and 10,000 troops were deployed.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barclay|first=Gordon|date=2018|title='Duties in aid of the civil power': the Deployment of the Army to Glasgow, 31 January to 17 February 1919|work=Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 38.2, 2018, 261-292|volume=38|issue=2|pages=261–292|url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2018.0248|url-status=live|access-date=17 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817000000/https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2018.0248|archive-date=17 August 2020|doi=10.3366/jshs.2018.0248}} [https://www.academia.edu/40520744 Alt URL]</ref>

[[Industrial action]] at the shipyards gave rise to the "[[Red Clydeside]]" epithet. During the 1930s, Glasgow was the main base of the [[Independent Labour Party]]. Towards the end of the twentieth century, it became a centre of the struggle against the [[Poll tax (Great Britain)|poll tax]]; which was introduced in Scotland a whole year before the rest of the United Kingdom and also served as the main base of the [[Scottish Socialist Party]], another left-wing political party in Scotland. The city has not had a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP since the [[1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election|1982 Hillhead by-election]], when the [[Social Democratic Party|SDP]] took the seat, which was in Glasgow's most affluent area. The fortunes of the Conservative Party continued to decline into the twenty-first century, winning only one of the 79 councillors on Glasgow City Council in [[2012 Glasgow City Council election|2012]], despite having been the controlling party (as the [[Progressives (Scotland)|Progressives]]) from 1969 to 1972 when Sir Donald Liddle was the last non-Labour [[Lord Provost of Glasgow|Lord Provost]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSS00035 |title=Sir Donald Liddle |date=2004 |website=The Glasgow Story |access-date=19 February 2018}}</ref>