The right to exist - Clydebank Resource Centre

UNISON members who staff Clydebank Independent Resource Centre must be rightly proud of the history outlined in Chik Collins's book 'The Right to Exist' published in May.

It follows the history from action group to Unemployed Workers Centre and unemployed community resource centre in 1993 up until the present day. It includes the famous UCS work-in in 1971 when the workforce, led by Jimmy Airlie and Jimmy Reid, refused to accept government moves to close two shipyards.

UNISON West Dunbartonshire's Tom Morrison said, "This is an outstanding campaigning group who have fought against all the odds and been such a success that they attracted interest from Oxfam and academia."

The Right to Exist is available from the CIRC, 627 Dumbarton Road, Dalmuir, Clydebank, G81 4ET.

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