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Red Clydeside hero is a figure of the present
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JOHN MACLEAN may have died 95 years ago. But for Living Rent, Scotland’s insurgent tenants’ union, the Red Clydeside hero is very much a figure of the present.
An event to celebrate 100 years since his triumphant post-imprisonment return to Glasgow, which I previewed in last week’s column, saw music, poetry and history in Glasgow’s Stereo bar.
And Living Rent organiser Joey Simons told the crowd: “Maclean didn’t have a focus on the industrial working class, the engineers — he understood the working class in its totality.”
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