RIP Jimmy Reid

[Nanatsu Yoru]

Do a little research... remember him.


We are not going to strike. We are not even having a sit-in strike. Nobody and nothing will come in and nothing will go out without our permission. And there will be no hooliganism, there will be no vandalism, there will be no bevvying because the world is watching us.

[bawbag]

One of my father's heroes, must admit I am too young to know who he is but I have been reading about him since I heard of his death.

[Hit The North]

There's a colourful obituary for him in the Daily Record:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2010/08/11/obituary-jimmy-reid-86908-22479995/

[bawbag]

There's a colourful obituary for him in the Daily Record:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2010/08/11/obituary-jimmy-reid-86908-22479995/



Fantastic! Cheers for this

[A.J.]

Sort of tarnished his own reputation later in life it has to be said. For example, openly criticising Arthur Scargill's leadership of the 1984/85 Miners Strike on BBC Newsnight and, more recently, supporting the Scottish national party :mad:

Although, he makes a good point here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dHNAE0UTSY&feature=related

It should be emphasised that the right wing of social-democracy would rather support fascism than socialism if push came to shove.

[REDSOX]

A great leader during the 1971-2 upper clyde occupation but a bastard during the 1984 miners strike when he described the flying pickets as like the National front

[RebelDog]

Reid was a kind of living contridiction, but all the same deserving of some real respect. RIP.

[pdcrofts]

There was a documentary on BBC4 in the UK recently covering the demise of the Clyde shipyards, 'The Men Who Built The Liners'. Had some good footage of him addressing the workers at the time of the work-in. Very inspirational man.

[welshexile1963]

Rip.

[Red Commissar]

To be honest I never heard of him until I saw the headline on the Guardian. Looking through his life and things in this thread shows me that he was a figure of the working class. Shame about his choice with the SNP though.

At any rate he did what he did. I can say that I feel he was more important than another person that died that same day, Ted Stevens :laugh:

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

A great leader during the 1971-2 upper clyde occupation but a bastard during the 1984 miners strike when he described the flying pickets as like the National front

No, he was critical of Scargill's lack of democracy within the Union movement. It is widely believed - and this, I believe, was the view of Reid - that had Scargill held a union-wide ballot, he could have gotten the support of much more of the TUC against the express wishes of their right-wing leadership.