The Caledonian Mercury - Scottish news, stories and intelligent analysis Reconstructing a left-wing life through the archaeology of books
By Jack Jonson Jimmy Reid’s death in 2010 was particularly sad as his passing seemed to herald the end of a generation of working-class socialists in Scotland who self-educated themselves from books. I suppose the process was started by John McLean in his Marxist lectures in George Square, Glasgow, and elsewhere around the country, in