John Maclean (24 August 1879 – 30 November 1923) was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era. He was notable for...
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Canyon Fire John MacLean (Manitoba politician) (1929–1987), Canadian Member of Parliament John Maclean (Scottish socialist) (1879–1923), Scottish political...
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Sorley MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Somhairle MacGill-Eain; 26 October 1911 – 24 November 1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry...
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The Scottish Workers Republican Party (SWRP) was formed by the Scottish Marxist activist John Maclean (1879–1923) in 1923. It advocated the political...
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the John MacLean commemoration. It publishes two magazines, called Scottish Worker's Republic and Red Duster. The Scottish Republican Socialist Clubs...
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The John MacLean March is a Scottish song written by Hamish Henderson in 1948. It eulogises the socialist organiser John Maclean, describing his funeral...
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List of left-wing publications in the United Kingdom (redirect from List of Socialist Newspapers in the United Kingdom)
Socialist Labour Group. Universities and Left Review (1957–1959) – forerunner of New Left Review. The Vanguard – paper associated with John Maclean....
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particularly prominent in what became known as Red Clydeside. Socialists such as John Maclean led strikes and demonstrations for better working conditions...
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establishment of an independent socialist Scottish republic. The party was founded in 1998. It campaigns for Scottish independence, against cuts to public...
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Federation (SDF) by James Connolly, Neil Maclean and SDF members impressed with the politics of the American socialist Daniel De Leon, a Marxist theoretician...
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influence of John Maclean MA, the group was provisionally named the Scottish Communist Party. However, its founding conference, which Maclean did not attend...
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and three regions. Scottish Greens contested 1 seat, Scottish Socialist Party contested 1 seat, Scottish Christian Party, Scottish Voice etc. contested...
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Harry McShane (category Scottish socialists)
Harry McShane (7 May 1891 – 12 April 1988) was a Scottish socialist, and a close colleague of John Maclean. Born into a Roman Catholic family, he became...
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John McAllion (born 13 February 1948) is a campaigner for the Scottish Socialist Party, as well as a former Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), Member...
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and his followers established the National Socialist Party. John Maclean, the party's leader in Scotland, was a revolutionary defeatist who played a...
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Scots National League (category Scottish National Party)
of Gaelic independence and self-determination. The revolutionary socialist John Maclean chaired one of the SNL's early meetings in Arbroath. By 1925, and...
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including the Scottish Green Party and the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) and declines in support for the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party...
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Ruaraidh Erskine (category Scottish Gaelic language activists)
formation of a Scottish nationalist political party. Despite his aristocratic background, Erskine had links with the socialist figure John Maclean who was himself...
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James Dunlop MacDougall (category British Socialist Party members)
December 1963), also known as James McDougall, was a Scottish political activist, best known as John Maclean's leading supporter. MacDougall was born in Pollokshaws...
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with the Socialist Alliance in England and the Welsh Socialist Alliance. Its Scottish members joined the Scottish Socialist Party as the Socialist Worker...
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Loos). 27 October – World War I: Glasgow revolutionary socialist anti-war protester John Maclean is arrested for the first time under the Defence of the...
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instrumental in creating the Socialist League, while the majority of Scottish members left to form the Scottish Socialist Party and members in Northern...
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Hugh MacDiarmid (category 20th-century Scottish educators)
from the National Party of Scotland for being a Communist. As a follower of the Scottish revolutionary socialist John Maclean, he saw no contradiction between...
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finishing in second place in the same ward. The Socialist Labour Party contested all electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament in 2011, increasing its share...
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Tong, Lewis (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
Tong in particular was considered particularly radical; John Maclean, a Scottish socialist, who visited the area after World War I, "saw it as a "hotbed...
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Freddie Anderson (category Scottish socialists)
Post award. As a playwright, his 1979 work Krassivy about Scottish leftist politician John Maclean won a Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
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Conference. In Scotland, the BSP's John Maclean was involved in the Red Clydeside movement. From 1916 to 1920, the British Socialist Party would be the largest...
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Hamish Henderson (category Scottish socialists)
performed The John Maclean March, to the tune of Scotland the Brave, which honoured the life and work John Maclean, a communist and Scottish nationalist...
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Alastair McDonald (musician) (category Scottish banjoists)
songs, usually socialist and/or republican, such as his tribute song to John MacLean and The Wee German Lairdie. He supports Scottish independence. He...
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three candidates in the election, along with independent socialists David Kirkwood and John Maclean, and permitted individual members to campaign for Labour...
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