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Jimmy Reid


Born
in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland
July 09, 1932

Died
August 10, 2010

Genre
Memoir


James Reid was a Scottish trade union activist, orator, politician and journalist born in Govan, Glasgow. His role as spokesman and one of the leaders in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in between June 1971 and October 1972 attracted international recognition. He later served as Rector of the University of Glasgow and subsequently became a journalist and broadcaster. Formerly a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Reid was later a Labour Party member. After supporting the Scottish Socialist Party in the late 1990s, he joined the Scottish National Party in 2005 and fully supported Scottish independence. He died in 2010 after a long illness.

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Average rating: 4.25 · 12 ratings · 1 review · 5 distinct works
Reflections of a Clyde Buil...
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions
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Power Without Principles
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The UCS Work-In
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AS I PLEASE.
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“A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice, lest you jeopardise your chances of self-promotion and self-advancement. This is how it starts. And before you know where you are, you're a fully paid-up member of the rat pack. The price is too high. It entails the loss of your dignity and human spirit.”
― Jimmy Reid
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