Obituary: Willie Thompson 1939-2023

Willie Thompson, 1939-2023 In 1962 Willie Thompson, with his wife Noreen Butler, and his close friend Douglas Bain, joined the Communist Party and the Young Communist League in Glasgow. They were all around 23 years old. I remember hearing a Lerwick businessman fulminating about...

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