Just turned 50 and only now this man comes into my view. I’m so happy to find recorded moments like this where his opinions can be heard and for me, respected, believed, understood & absorbed into my personal view of modern politics. The belief in humanity over profit, not education for jobs but to enhance personal identity & subsequent individual strengths. Never has anyone ‘spoke’ to me with such reverence, I’m genuinely happy to find another human who has - Even if it’s hope from the grave, hope none the less. Thank you Jim ❤️

What a man. Where are the men like Jimmy Reid today? A gentleman with integrity and vision.

A voice from a time when British workers could hope to create a fair society to live and work in. Long gone now.

My father was a soviet journalist, who works in London as a correspondent for "Izvestia" newspaper more than 4 years. He went to Glasgow and been there during all this events, visit one of strikes when Jimmy Reids spoke to workers and dockers. Then, together with scotish correspondent of Morning Star newspaper Arthur Milleghen he visited mister Reids home in Glasgow, saw his wife and three daughters. But most important thing, that he brought an invitation and air tickets Glasgo-London-Moscow to visit Soviet Union and have rest. Also it was a gift from soviet workers and unions. Great Jimmy Reid who struggle much for right of Scotland workers, mechanic, headman, municipal councilor, political committee member of communist Party of Great Britain, rector of Glasgow university, big worker man celebrated its 40th anniversary on Soviet land in 1972

all these years later his shadow still shines a light on what could. I am ashamed of what we have become.

Thank you ThamesTv! More about the trade unions/70s politics!

Thanks for this. Love Jimmy.

Such a shame Jimmy never became an MP. Wonderful to see and to hear the arguments long since burried by time and treachery.

This footage of Jimmy Reid goes very well with Perry Anderson's recent massive summation of postwar british history in the New Left Review.

Thank you ThamesTV and Jonathan Dimbleby.

Dude's a Legend...reminds me of ma Granda Osborne so he does, God Bless The Dead.....

He was a good communicator. made it simple to understand.

Wish he was still with us. What a giant of a man.

Outstanding

A LEGEND OF THE PEOPLE

A great poet

9:10 THE ICY!!

"The Rat race is for Rats" _Jimmy Reid

And then we got Thatcher….Can someone see to it that Kier Starmer watches this.

"But although he believes change must come via the ballot box, he has no love for the parliamentary politics of today". That is exact how I feel and have felt since I was about 17. The first time I could vote was when I realized, regardless of the best intentions of most labour and left candidates i've voted for, bourgeois tinpot democracy is drastically inefficient and borderline oppressive. How the hell can one man or woman truly represent the will of tens of thousands of people on a national level? This disconnect between local action and national government shows just how inefficient the whole process is. And when the likes of clay cross councilors in the 70s and liverpool's in the 80s try and take these actions into their own hands they get labelled as subversive and dangerous when all they were trying to do is uphold the promises they kept when they got so much as a whiff of power! Britain is a truly decadent and corrupt society, at least in political terms and nobody cares for each other because that kind of attitude is dissuaded. It's a shitshow.

Where are MEN like him now ?

Jimmy ried , and the Scots guards what a complication , Scotsman every one.

A time when people had opinions, and spoke to their fellow men person to person not write like I am doing now most people will read this then watch Bugs Bunny

The tragedy of British industry in the twentieth century. Class divisions were such that the two sides spent most of their time fighting eachother and destroying the industries as a result.

Reid was well intentioned, but couldn't understand Communism was destined to fail.

Not one of the workers he represented was forced to work for the shipyards. They signed on voluntarily. Those he vilified for "shoving pieces of paper around", could have lost everything - but they chose to gamble and took the risks. The labourers who made those boats were paid to do so. They could have made boats themselves - but they chose to take the safe option, for a regular wage. He put his own men on the scrap heap, by invoking perpetual strikes and making shipbuilding uneconomical. Now we buy ships from Korea, China, Japan and India. His union members ended up with zero. (Who would want to run a shipyard beset with workers continuously involved in "industrial action"?). He got rid of the Scots businessmen "shoving pieces of paper around" and handed it all to Asians instead - who treat their workers 1000 worse than any Scottish employer. I hope his union members felt the exercise was worthwhile, as they lined up in the unemployment queues. He ruined the Scottish shipbuilding industry due to his jealousy of rich people. Socialism and communism tears the heart out of human drive and initiative. People like Reid are parasites and demagogues. They pose as the saviour of the working man but actually are their sworn enemies.

Yes they had it all. It wasn’t enough. No more.