Continuation of 842/75. Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): events leading up to McShane’s resignation from the Communist Party in July 1953 because of differences with the leadership (1-8); formation in 1953 by McShane, Gerry Healy, Eric Heffer and others of a short-lived federation of Marxist groups (10-11); getting a job in Harland and Wolff shipyard at the age of sixty-two (13-14); working for Glasgow Trades Council (15-17); speech by McShane at the Scottish TUC around 1962 on the future of shipbuilding (17-18); his desire to resume campaigning with working people (19-20); trades council’s failure in recent times to promote solidarity with European socialists (21-22); need to expose the lack of socialist vision of the Communist Party bureaucracy and challenge its wish to control campaigns such as that against the Industrial Relations Act (23-25); McShane’s scepticism about Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (25-26); shut-down of Communist Party’s industrial organisation after Second World War and McShane’s opposition to it (26-27).
27 pages
Open
Recording at 842/18.
English
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