The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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New art for John Maclean
HENRY BELL introduces new art in Glasgow that celebrates the national and international significance of John Maclean
A new collection of poetry and song exploring Maclean’s legacy: Now’s The Day, Now’s The Hour; Keira McLean, a specially-commissioned stained glass window that will be unveiled on 30 November 2023 in Pollockshaws Library, Glasgow
[Courtesy of Keira McLean]
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ST ANDREW’S DAY 2023 marks 100 years since the passing of 20th century Scotland’s greatest revolutionary: John Maclean.
Amid the November fog, Maclean collapsed on stage at a cinema in the Gorbals, the effects of years of force-feeding and hard labour in British jails finally extinguishing the greatest Marxist educator and agitator of his day.
Heralded by Lenin as the great hope of the British working class, and by MI5 as the most dangerous man in Britain, Maclean’s martyrdom would inspire generations of radicals.
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