THOUSANDS of workers across Scotland marched at the weekend to celebrate May Day and prepare for battles ahead.

In Glasgow, striking college workers, who are fighting for their first pay rise in three years, received the honour of leading the march from the city’s George Square to the once unlikely location of Glasgow University Union. 

The union’s debating chamber, which once echoed to the voices of champion debaters such as John Smith, Menzies Campbell, Donald Dewar and Charles Kennedy but was long associated with all-male privilege on the campus, instead rang out to the voices of trade unionists and activists focused on the theme of international solidarity.