The Wrong Side of the Law

by Norman Deeley

This play is based on the life of John Maclean, the revolutionary Scottish politician who, as Bolshevik Consul in Glasgow in 1918, was the first British representative of Soviet Russia. Throughout his life the issues which concerned Maclean were of global the impact of war on ordinary people; the plight of refugees; the need for health, education, housing and work as the basis of a decent and fair society; the economic roots of prejudice in all its forms and the international dimension of humanity which unites rather than divides - all equally familiar today. Maclean also grappled with the tensions between capital and labour, with the difficulties of ordering the community in a different way and with the question of an independent Scotland. At the heart of the Red Clyde, he was imprisoned and force-fed for his beliefs and died aged 44, having lost almost everything.

110 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2015