Jimmy Reid: ‘We’re Not Rats. We’re Human Beings.’
50 years ago this week, Jimmy Reid led the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in that defeated the Tory government. In commemoration, we republish his speech about alienation under capitalism.
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Jimmy Reid
James Reid (1932–2010) was a Scottish trade union activist, orator, politician and journalist born in Govan, Glasgow.