A left-wing think-tank inspired by hero of the shipyards Jimmy Reid has been launched in Glasgow – exactly a year to the day since the celebrated union leader's death.
A left-wing think-tank inspired by hero of the shipyards Jimmy Reid has been launched in Glasgow – exactly a year to the day since the celebrated union leader's death.
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Mark Smith
The team behind the Jimmy Reid Foundation hope the organisation will spark fresh political ideas and provide a rallying point for those who believe in left-wing ideas, whatever party they support.
The launch of the organisation at the Pearce Institute in Govan, just down the road from the shipyards which Reid helped save as one of the leaders of the work-in in 1971, was attended by Mr Reid’s daughter Julie and two of the patrons of the foundation, former first minister Henry McLeish and actress Elaine C Smith.
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