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2 unusual facts about Upper Clyde Shipbuilders


1971 Harco work-in

Drawing inspiration from factory occupations in France since 1968 and actions taken by the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in Scotland earlier in 1971, the Harco workers adopted the tactic of the work-in.

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

The campaign was also well backed financially, and at one meeting for the campaign Jimmy Reid was able to announce that the campaign had received a £5,000 contribution from John Lennon, to which an attendee replied "but Lenin's deid!" (dead).



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Jean Stead

From 1983-88 she was the Guardians Scotland correspondent, covering the national miners' strike and at the Ravenscraig steelworks and the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, as well as Scottish politics and the nationalist movement.