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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
Plaque Tom Maguire

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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