'An affirmation of faith in humanity'

An excellent, and timely speech, reproduced in the Indy, that should remind everyone that genuine freedom is not one in the same as the version offered by the political right, Condems and all.


"Jimmy Reid, the Clydeside trade union activist who died this week, was an inspiring orator. This speech, delivered on his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University in 1972, was compared at the time to the Gettysburg Address. It has lost little of its relevance".