On the 50th anniversary of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ (UCS) work-in, the Jimmy Reid Foundation is holding this meeting to celebrate and commemorate one of the most successful campaigns of the post-war period. The work-in… Read More »Celebrating and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the UCS work-in: sign up to come to the virtual meeting (28/1/21)
To mark today, Thursday 10 December 2020, as the annual International Human Rights’ Day, the Jimmy Reid Foundation is pleased to publish the paper, ‘Update on Human Rights Protection in Scotland – recommendations to review… Read More »Human Rights Protection in Scotland – recommendations to review and revitalise
With the fiftieth anniversary of the successful work-in (in which Jimmy Reid played a leading role) coming next year, the Jimmy Reid Foundation is pleased to see a new short film by Townsend Theatre Productions.… Read More »New short film on the UCS 1971-2 work-in
Most now agree that the private sector model of providing care is badly broken and needs to be replaced. The questions are ‘with what?’, ‘what form should it take?’, and ‘how do we go about… Read More »Care After COVID: Constructing an adult social care service fit for purpose for society in Scotland
Today, 17 August 2020, the Jimmy Reid Foundation releases a new report called ‘Building stronger communities’ by Dave Watson. Building upon his earlier papers for the Jimmy Reid Foundation, in this new paper, he argues… Read More »Building Stronger Communities
Today, 3 August 2020, the Jimmy Reid Foundation releases a new report on occupational health and safety in Scotland after the Covid-19 pandemic by Professor Andrew Watterson of the University of Stirling. The paper argues… Read More »Occupational health and safety in Scotland after the Covid-19 pandemic: the case for new principles, policies and practices
Today (24 July 2020), the Jimmy Reid Foundation publishes its second short collective paper on learning lessons from the pandemic. It is called ‘ Learning left lessons: reconstructing economy and society in the post-pandemic period’.… Read More »Further pandemic paper – learning the progressive lessons from the COVID-19 crisis for our economy and society
Inntroduction As pressures for a return to previous ‘normal’ patterns and levels of working and economic activity increase, our political attention must turn to the issue of the post-pandemic period, and specifically, responding to the… Read More »Reconstructing Scotland after the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis: learning the lessons of the pandemic
Due to the coronavirus crisis, our planned fringe meeting at the STUC in April – and the STUC itself – was cancelled. The title for the meeting was ‘Constitutional options for Scotland – which way… Read More »Update from Reid Foundation during COVID-19 crisis
At the first meetings of both the editorial committee of the Scottish Left Review magazine and the project board of the Jimmy Reid Foundation since the 12 December 2019 general election, the following motion was unanimously passed:… Read More »Jimmy Reid Foundation supports the right to a referendum