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WHEN I was growing up in Drumchapel, a big Glasgow council estate, injustice and unfairness were plain to see.
It was a time when the Tories and big employers did what they do best — laying waste to what slim chances working people had for a decent crack at life. Public services starved of funding, high unemployment, high interest rates, crumbling schools and hospitals.
But we had the strength of organised labour — equally plain to see. Most folk from the “Drum” worked in the nearby Clydebank shipyards, in engineering or the factories, or, like my mother, in public services. My mother was a school cleaner and “dinner lady” through my childhood.
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