Jimmy Reid Foundation 2022 annual lecture
The Cost-of-Living Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for Our Trade Unions The Foundation is delighted to announce that Christina McAnea, the first woman general secretary of the largest union in Britain, UNISON, will be giving the annual lecture this year on Thursday 6th October. She will outline the challenges and opportunities that trade unions have in Scotland… Read More »Jimmy Reid Foundation 2022 annual lecture August 4, 2022 Read more…Publication of ‘A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society’
The Jimmy Reid Foundation, in association with Pluto Press, is pleased to announce the publication of a major new book on the past, present – and critically – future of society in Scotland. Priced at £14.99, for further details on the book and how to purchase see here. May 13, 2022 Read more…The Reid Foundation is now 10 years old – help sustain it for the next ten
The Jimmy Reid Foundation reached its 10th birthday on 10 August 2021. It was launched a year after the death of Jimmy Reid by the Scottish Left Review magazine which Jimmy founded. So far, the Foundation has produced nearly 100 publications (policy paper, pamphlets and briefing notes) and organised dozens of meetings and our annual lectures. In… Read More »The Reid Foundation is now 10 years old – help sustain it for the next ten August 9, 2021 Read more…
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The Jimmy Reid Foundation is a think tank which brings together different voices from across the left in Scotland to make the case for economic, environmental, political and social equity and justice in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, the Foundation seeks to build on the legacy that Jimmy Reid left us.

The Reid Foundation is now 10 years old
The Jimmy Reid Foundation reached its 10th birthday on 10 August 2021. It was launched a year after the death of Jimmy Reid by the Scottish Left Review magazine which Jimmy founded. So far, the Foundation has produced nearly 100 publications (policy paper, pamphlets and briefing notes) and organised dozens of meetings and our annual lectures.

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- Video of 9th (2022) annual Jimmy Reid Foundation lecture given by Christina McAnea
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- Music as a terrain of struggle for the left – lessons from Joe Strummer and The Clash – virtual meeting, 7pm Thurs 14 July
- ‘UCS work-in: reflections on language and leaders’ virtual meeting, 7pm Thurs 16 June
- Publication of ‘A New Scotland: Building an Equal, Fair and Sustainable Society’
- Jimmy Reid’s ‘rat race’ speech – an appreciation 50 years on

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