IRELAND AND SCOTLAND SCOTLAND WILL RISE AGAIN John MacLean March## https://youtube/watch?v=6uAs5cyy5EM Words: Hamish Henderson / Music: trad Lyric as sung by Dick Gaughan Hey, mac, did ye see him as he cam doun by Gorgie Awa owre the Lammerlaw an north o the Tay? Yon man is comin an the hail toun is turnin out Were aa shair hell win back tae Glesca the day The jiners an hauders-on are merchin fae Clydebank Come on nou an hear him hell be owre thrang tae bide Turn out Jock an Jimmie, leave yer cranes an yer muckle gantries Great John Macleans comin hame tae the Clyde Argyll St and London Roads the route that were merchin The lauds frae the Broomielaw are here, tae a man! Hey Neil, whaurs yer hauderums, ye big Heilan teuchtar Hullo, Pat Malone, shair A knew yed be here, so, The red an the green, laud, well wear side by side Gorbals is his the day an Glesca belangs tae him Nou great John Macleans comin hame tae the Clyde Forward tae Glesca Green well merch in guid order Will grips his banner weill, that boy isnae blate! Aye, weill, man, thairs Johnnie nou, thats him thair the bonnie fechter Lenins his feir, laud, and Liebknechts his mate Tak tent whan hes speakin for thaell mind whit he said here In Glesca, our city, an the hail warl besides Och man the scarlets bonnie, heres tae ye Heilan Shonie Great John Macleans comin hame tae the Clyde Aye weill, whan its feenisht All awa back tae Springburn Come hame tae yer tea, John, well sune hae ye fed Its hard wark the speakin, och, Am shair hell be tired the nicht All sleep on the flair, mac, an gie John the bed The hail citys quiet nou, it kens that hes restin At hame wis Glesca freens, thair fame an thair pride The red will be worn, ma lauds, an Scotlan will merch again Nou great John Maclean has come hame tae the Clyde ‘Great’ John MacLean,the great Scottish died, aged 44, on St. Andrew’s Day November 30 1923, broken in health after suffering hard labour in Peterhead Prison, force feeding and poverty through loss of his teaching job. John McClean supported his friend, Edinburgh born James Connolly, in his struggle for an Irish Workers Republic. Connolly, in the very last issue of The Workers Republic, also demanded MacLeans release. John McClean was born on August 24 1879, in Pollokshaws, then a busy industrial town in Renfrewshire near Glasgow, he was the sixth child of working class parents who victims of the Highland Clearances. His father, Daniel was born in Mull and his mother, Anne MacPhee, in Corpach, a small village close to Ben Nevis. His daughter and biographer, told how ‘Wee Johnnie’ was told from his mother’s knee of the depredations of the Highland Clearances, forcing crofters off the Land to the Industrial Lowlands or to be scattered round the globe. A committed conscienous objector during the first world war he He told workers at his mass socialist, anti- war rallies that if they wanted to fight a Hun to go and fight the English King. He also commented to Ulster Unionists that England went to war to defend Catholic Belgium against Protestant Germany and sent the Ulster Volunteer force to their deaths by using them as canon fodder, as they did with Scots troops. John Mclean supported his friend, Edinburgh born James Connolly, in his struggle for an Irish Workers Republic. English/British socialists did not approve of Connolly’s stand in the 1916 Irish Rebellion. Labour MPs cheered in the House at the news of the wounded James Connolly’s execution while he was strapped to a chair. Lenin described James Connolly’s Irish Citizen Army as the first Red Army in Europe. – In 1920 MacLean r his paper the Vanguard. and wrote numerous articles supporting the Irish struggle and urging Scotsmen, as fellow Gaels, not to be used as tools for murdering their brother Gaels in Ireland. During this time he published a pamphlet The Irish Tragedy - Scotland s Disgrace, which sold 200,000 copies. In this he called for a General Strike and for the withdrawal of English troops in Ireland. MacLean addressed meetings on the Irish question in Ireland, Scotland, and England, and continually urged working class support for the Irish struggle. Orange mobs broke up one meeting in Motherwell. See more at: scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/pages/srsmjohnmacleanscottishrepublicansocialist.aspx#sthash.mxFZoxlF.dpuf
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:15:19 +0000
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