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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
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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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