Ruth SalterA song of camaraderie for today's UCU strike – Hamish Henderon’s ‘The Gillie More’ (1953), sung by Dick Gaughan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur9uvc7cGZw
The song, commemorating friendship between blacksmiths in Leith and Kiev, speaks to wider solidarity between international workers.
I like it because it’s both local and international; the worker of Leith (or Gairloch!) is the worker of the world.
‘You an me: the man, the brither!
Me an you: the Gillie More.’
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