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Tom Maguire: a man of the working class and for the working class
RICHARD BURGON pays tribute to a legendary socialist from Leeds

ON Saturday, Unite the Union general secretary Len McCluskey will be delivering the inaugural Tom Maguire Lecture in the beautiful surroundings of Chapel FM Arts Centre — a unique community venue in a spectacularly converted Methodist Chapel — on the Seacroft estate in East Leeds. 

Before delivering the Memorial Lecture, I will be joining Len to lay flowers on Maguire’s grave in Beckett Street Cemetery, opposite St James’s Hospital. 

I decided to establish an event in memory of Maguire because he was a real Leeds labour and trade union movement hero. 

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