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Friell Jimmy (`Gabriel’)
Jimmy (James) Friell – Gabriel of the Daily Worker Jimmy Friell was a celebrated but entirely self-taught political cartoonist. Born on March 13th 1912, he was brought up in poverty in Glasgow. At the age of […]
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Hope Jimmy
Jimmy Hope Jimmy Hope was elected to Fife County Council as a Communist for East Wymyss in the 1930s.
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Shields Jimmy
Jimmy Shields Jimmy Shields was born in January 1900 in Greenock, Scotland, of Irish parents and joined the Communist Party in 1921. He spent the rest of his life as an absolutely dedicated Communist, dying […]
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Cousins Jimmy
James Arthur Cousins was born on 2nd July 1894 in Bracknell, Berkshire and, as a child, lived on the north Ascot downs. His parents were relatively independent, financially, in that they owned two semi-detached houses, […]
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Milne Jimmy
Jimmy Milne Born in 1921, Milne joined the Communist Party in 1939. He was a patternmaker by trade and first worked at the Hall Russell shipyard. The secretary of Aberdeen Trades Council from 1948-1969, he […]
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Sneddon Jimmy
Jimmy Sneddon A Communist councillor for the Forgewood area of Motherwell for 20 years, Sneddon was also convenor of shop stewards at the Dalzell Steelworks in Motherwell for many years. He was also the […]
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Barnes Jimmy
Jimmy Barnes Jimmy Barnes was born in Carlisle, the son of working-class Communist Party members. (One of his sisters is the journalist and former Communist, Beatrix Campbell.) His education was marked by dyslexia, and his […]
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Stewart Jimmy
Jimmy Stewart Jimmy Stewart was born in Ballymena to a Unionist-minded family but found himself particularly interested in Irish history at school. It was through his reading of T.A. Jackson's 'Ireland Her Own' that things […]
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Callan Jimmy
Jimmy Callan Callan (pictured left on the left with Willie Gallacher on the right with a pipe in his mouth – see separate entry) was Conductor of the internationally famous Glasgow YCL Choir, which he […]
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Maley Jimmy
Jimmy Maley James Maley was born on February 19, 1908. His father, Ned, was from Mayo and his mother, Anne Sherlock, a Glaswegian. Raised in Stevenson Street in the Calton district of Glasgow’s east end, […]