Jim McDaid
@jim_mcdaid
Glasgow | London | RMT activist |Socialist |Republican |Celtic 🍀
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15-09-2015 20:47:33
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Natalie Elphicke’s values are not the values of the labour movement.
It’s outrageous that she should be allowed to join the Labour benches while principled socialists like Diane Abbott MP and Jeremy Corbyn still haven’t had the whip restored.
#OtD 29 Apr 1916 the leaders of the Irish Easter Rising against British rule surrendered unconditionally at 16 Moore Street in Dublin. 16 leaders of the rising were subsequently executed. The brutal response by Britain spurred support for independence stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10066/…
My book, Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland, is available to download for free from this link! You can also buy a paper copy.
Coal Country is the first book length account of the end of coal mining in Scotland. uolpress.co.uk/book/coal-coun…
#OnThisDay 1999. Mick McGahey died in Edinburgh.
A campaigner for Scottish devolution, his ashes were buried in the foundations of the Scottish Parliament debating chamber.