My Dad saw Jimmy at the Durham Miners Gala one year. I think Michael Foot was there too. What a combination. Who, today, could ever speak so beautifully with no airs and graces, yet inspire people at their lowest ebb. Jimmy Reid could walk with kings and talk to those with no hope. Anyone who ever experienced the man would certainly never forget him.
jimmy was a great union guy, wealth is made on the backs of the average guy same as wars are won by the butch, the baker & the candle stick maker, yes entrepreneurs are vital but with out the people at the pointy end of the stick you have nowt.
ah mind of all this when i was a kid, my father worked in the shipyards, plus Jimmy was my maws cousin, met him a few times, remember of him doing a radio show from a house in faifley.
It was a very original form of industrial action and one of the finest illustrations of the rewards of hard work and putting in some extra effort. Clyde built ships always satisfy the contractors but I wonder if the contractors who had ordered the ships that were built during the work-in noted that they were exceptionally well done.
The film suggests that one of the factors behind growing industrial unrest was the growth of foreign competition. It is precisely this destructive logic that proved so destructive !
A good video Rick Walker. If he was with us today, I wonder what he would be really thinking about the state of play in the disUnited Kingdom, especially after 13 years of this right wing government.
@1996SMM 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely', don't blame Socialism for its leaders' failures. Besides, the work-in was about people's livelihoods, not just ideology, and if more left-wing politics were acceptable to them, then that was the answer.
My Dad saw Jimmy at the Durham Miners Gala one year. I think Michael Foot was there too. What a combination. Who, today, could ever speak so beautifully with no airs and graces, yet inspire people at their lowest ebb. Jimmy Reid could walk with kings and talk to those with no hope. Anyone who ever experienced the man would certainly never forget him.
One of the greatest Scotsman who ever lived..
A true working class leader and a man of the poeple!
It's a pity we don't have a Jimmy Reid today..
A great loss to this island that we share, never mind just Scotland. It is a sad state of politics when men like him get sidelined.
jimmy was a great union guy, wealth is made on the backs of the average guy same as wars are won by the butch, the baker & the candle stick maker, yes entrepreneurs are vital but with out the people at the pointy end of the stick you have nowt.
ah mind of all this when i was a kid, my father worked in the shipyards, plus Jimmy was my maws cousin, met him a few times, remember of him doing a radio show from a house in faifley.
He's a man I would have liked to meet. Always had something interesting to say.
It was a very original form of industrial action and one of the finest illustrations of the rewards of hard work and putting in some extra effort. Clyde built ships always satisfy the contractors but I wonder if the contractors who had ordered the ships that were built during the work-in noted that they were exceptionally well done.
The film suggests that one of the factors behind growing industrial unrest was the growth of foreign competition. It is precisely this destructive logic that proved so destructive !
A good video Rick Walker. If he was with us today, I wonder what he would be really thinking about the state of play in the disUnited Kingdom, especially after 13 years of this right wing government.
A Great Man.
@1996SMM 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely', don't blame Socialism for its leaders' failures. Besides, the work-in was about people's livelihoods, not just ideology, and if more left-wing politics were acceptable to them, then that was the answer.
working class 'ero reduced to tele sound bite size - 'ollox
uttaradit2 but surely better this than to be forgotten
I share the same name but don't have the same game
A communist leading a strike...yep try that in a communist country 😂