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The real struggle is to liberate our class
The trade union movement remains the strongest force for a better Scotland for all, argues RICHARD LEONARD
"It is an abiding and indisputable truth that a people which does not understand the past will never comprehend the present, nor mould the future."
So wrote Tom Johnston in his foreword to the 1946 edition of The History of the Working Classes in Scotland.
Johnston's powerful message echoes down the years and so it was fitting that it was recalled at the start of a special labour history workshop last Saturday at the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre.
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