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How the solidarity of Clydeside’s shipyard workers defeated the Tories
DAVIE COOPER, former deputy convener and later convener at Govan Yard, tells the story of how a crucial working-class victory was won
30,000 to 40,000 workers in Clydeside industry marched in what was claimed to be the biggest demonstration ever seen in Scotland in protest against the planned changes to the shipyard
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
THE shop stewards’ movement has always played a central role in asserting the authority of rank-and-file workers on Clydeside.
It had gained renewed strength during the second world war with the formation of joint production committees.
Equally in the 1960s the Fairfield Experiment and then the formation of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders by the Labour government reinforced their authority.
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