Scottish shipbuilders historic win recalled

Green Left Online Sunday 25th March, 2012

www.smokestack-books.co.uk Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the work-in Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) in 1971, a campaign by Scottish workers that resulted in the reversal of the Conservative government's decision to close down a number of shipyards on the River Clyde in Glasgow. A Rose Loupt Oot

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