Gus Abraham

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Gus Abraham is the veteran polemicist and author of mixed Highland and Jewish background. His father an exile from post-war Germany and his mother was an inker (print industry setter) in Paisley.

Abraham set up the short-lived Happiness Factory in Glasgow in 1976 where he worked briefly with RD Laing and Peter Jacobson. He was a key figure in the underground movement for self-determination in Scotland, Ireland and the Basque country between 1978 and 1986.

He is now the editor of the 1820 website.