Reid joins Communist Party

Jimmy Reid

 

Jimmy Reid joins the Communist Party aged 15.

Biographers said it was the library rather than the classroom that shaped Govan-born Jimmy and his political activism.

Read the full blog: The Beatle, The Bankie & The Bouquet .

Photo montage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jimmy Reid and in front of the Titan crane in the former shipyards of Clydebank

The full story behind John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s donation to Clyde shipbuilders of the UCS in 1971 as he went from Beatle to political and peace activist.

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