Why This Name, Why This Fight
Memory. Defiance. Continuity
Why Angry Pict?
Because history isn’t neutral — and neither am I.
The name is a statement of identity and defiance. The Picts were the people Rome could not break. They weren’t primitive, and they weren’t erased. They adapted, survived, and became the core of what would later be Scotland. “Angry Pict” refuses to let imperial caricature dictate our story. It says: We’re still here. And we remember.
It’s also a trigger — deliberately. Unionist narratives depend on denying Pictish continuity because admitting it shatters the fiction that Scotland is a constructed identity. That’s why they try to flip the script: claiming the Scots were invaders, like Anglo-Saxons or Normans. But the historical record doesn’t support that. The Scots weren’t colonisers — they were one strand of a merging culture. The real rupture came later: with imperial union, suppression, and the rewriting of our past.
That memory matters. For too long, Scotland’s past has been reduced to folklore or British triumphalism. But behind the myths lies a history of struggle — political, economic, cultural — against absorption and silencing. That struggle didn’t end in 1707, or 1746, or 1999. It was buried. We are now unearthing it.
“Angry Pict” rejects those fictions. It’s not ethno-nationalism. It’s about continuity, memory, and refusal.
We are still here. We remember. And we reject the stories written to erase us.
Why The Line of Struggle?
Because we are not starting from scratch.
There is a continuous thread linking:
Resistance to imperial union
The Jacobite risings
Radical republicanism
The land wars
Cultural suppression
Economic extraction
The constitutional impasse we face today
This is the line of struggle — not always visible, not always victorious, but always there.
It cuts through:
The fantasy that the Union was a voluntary partnership
The illusion that Holyrood secures our sovereignty when it can be overridden at will
The silence about the absence of a legal or democratic path to independence within the UK framework
This series is about naming things plainly:
The Union was coerced
The Highlands were ethnically cleanesed and colonised
Scotland is colonised
Our resources were extracted
Our institutions were dissolved
Our resistance was recast as treason or backwardness
That’s not grievance. That’s history — and it carries legal, political, and moral weight.
This is not about nostalgia. It’s about understanding continuity — how we got here, and what it will take to get out.
The Line of Struggle will trace this suppressed history not as relic, but as evidence. It will show how control has changed form, not function. And how Scotland’s status remains an unresolved question of self-determination under international law.
This is not a party project. It’s not about elections, careers, or hashtags.
It’s about breaking the illusion of inevitability.
Because once you see what was done — and what was hidden — the logic of decolonisation becomes unavoidable.
Why now?
Because silence has become complicity
Because polite constitutionalism is a luxury that’s running out
Because many — especially the young — are ready to hear what was once unspeakable
This is a contribution to that awakening.
Not a manifesto. Not a platform. Just the truth, laid out piece by piece.
There are many ways to fight.
This is one of them.
Welcome to the Line of Struggle.