Abstract: As primary examples of robust RG invariants, global symmetries and their anomalies may enable access to non-perturbative physics in a variety of strongly coupled quantum field theories. In the first part of this talk we will provide a brief overview of some recently (and not so recently) developed techniques within the framework of generalized global symmetries, with the Schwinger model (2d QED) as our main case study. Then we will describe how these techniques have been recently harnessed to fully characterize the low energy dynamics of two dimensional QCD with Adjoint fermions.