Plaque commemorating the life and activities of John MacLean on City Halls in Glasgow where he often spoke.

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"I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot."

John MacLean
Speech from the Dock, 1918.

Feared by the government, adored by workers, celebrated by Lenin and Trotsky; the head of British Military Intelligence called John MacLean ‘the most dangerous man in Britain’.

The new biography of MacLean, published by Pluto Press

https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/john-maclean-scotland-revolutionary-clydeside/

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