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Journalist, author - Cold War Puerto Rico, Game Changer, Collateral Damage, Over The Line. Contributor @tribunemagazine @Jacobin @TheNation. Also on Substack.

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Nelson Mandela's spirit lives on in Glasgow where a statue was unveiled today as a permanent symbol of the struggle against Apartheid. The biggest cheer came when one speaker quoted Mandela saying: "Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." In 1981, Glasgow became the first city in the world to award Mandela - while he was still incarcerated - freedom of the city. The statue has been unveiled 33 years after Mandela visited Scotland ahead of being elected South Africa's president.

Nelson Mandela's spirit lives on in Glasgow where a statue was unveiled today as a permanent symbol of the struggle against Apartheid. The biggest cheer came when one speaker quoted Mandela saying: "Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." In 1981, Glasgow became the first city in the world to award Mandela - while he was still incarcerated - freedom of the city. The statue has been unveiled 33 years after Mandela visited Scotland ahead of being elected South Africa's president.

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