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
The Jimmy Reid Foundation, in association with UNITE Scotland (as the successor union to the engineering union of Jimmy Reid’s time), launched the new and definitive biography of Jimmy Reid on Friday 25 October at… Read More »Successful launch of Jimmy Reid biography at UNITE Scotland offices, 25 Oct 2019
In all its glory, here is the video of Aamer’s lecture at the Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on Thursday 10 October 2019 (with introduction from Neal Juster and Lynn Henderson). Thanks again from the… Read More »Video of Aamer Anwar’s 2019 Jimmy Reid Foundation lecture
To a large and rapturous audience, Aamer Anwar delivered a barnstorming and heartfelt lecture on poverty and injustice in the Bute Hall at the University of Glasgow on a wet and windy evening on Thursday… Read More »Text and slides from Aamer Anwar’s 2019 Jimmy Reid Foundation lecture
Tomorrow (Thursday 10 October 2019) Aamer Anwar will say In an extract from his forthcoming 2019 Jimmy Reid Foundation lecture called ‘The struggle for justice, equality and freedom in Scotland’, Scotland’s leading human rights and… Read More »Extract from Aamer Anwar’s 2019 Jimmy Reid Foundation lecture
Tickets are on sale here – click this link Scotland’s leading human rights lawyer, Aamer Anwar, to give 2019 Jimmy Reid annual lecture The Jimmy Reid Foundation, in conjunction with the University of Glasgow, is… Read More »Seventh annual Jimmy Reid lecture, 10 October 2019 – tickets now on sale
The Jimmy Reid Foundation launched its latest paper called ‘Neo-liberalism and the new institutional politics of universities’ by Jeremy Valentine (formerly Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) at the UCU Scotland offices on 30 May 2019. The Foundation would like… Read More »‘Neo-liberalism and the new institutional politics of universities’ – paper now available