- Today in 1971 saw the beginning of the work-in at John Brown’s Clydebank Shipbuilding Yard, organised by stalwart Socialist, Jimmy Reid. This was in response to the Ted Heath Tory government’s plans to liquidate the yard – Reid exposed these as unethical. As a result, Heath was forced to admit defeat and closure was delayed for a number of years.
- 1921 The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground
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