WORKING CLASS HERO
In 1970 John Lennon wrote a song that was pretty much 80% bullshit, Working Class Hero. Lennon was brought up in a middle class area of
In a week that has seen the burial of Jimmy Reid, a genuine hero of working class origin it has brought back memories of other heroes of mine, Jack Jones, Aneurin Bevan, James Connolly. I also was minded of an occasion when I heard Jack Jones speak of his involement in the Spanish Civil War and knew that of this generation we would never see their like again.