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  John Maclean MA
John Maclean was born in 1879 in Glasgow, Scotland into a family of Highland origin.
Maclean became convinced that the living standards of the working-classes could only be improved by the adoption of Marxist thinking and was by the time of World War I his socialism was of a revolutionary nature.
Maclean was made Soviet Consul in Scotland by Lenin in reward for his revolutionary socialist efforts.
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John Maclean MA (24 August 1879- 30 November 1923) was a leftist Scottish politician.
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 John Maclean and the CPGB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Maclean’s solution, by contrast, was to denounce the betrayals of the Labour leaders and appeal to workers to break from the Labour Party (‘the Pinks’, in his terminology) and rally to a minuscule revolutionary sect.
Maclean’s work with the unemployed, which was his main sphere of activity during his final years, was vitiated by his now characteristic refusal to engage in common action with the principal political tendencies in the labour movement.
Maclean stated explicitly that he had decided ‘to fuse with the SLP rather than form a new party for Communism in Scotland’ (The Socialist, 13 January 1921), and the SLP itself declared that ‘Comrade John Maclean is a fighting member of the SLP’ (ibid., 24 February 1921).
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 John Maclean's Speech From the Dock
John Maclean MA, Scottish Socialist agitator was a prominent activist against World War I.
On 8th May 1918 he was tried for his anti-war activities at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Text of John Maclean's Speech From the Dock (http://www.redflag.org.uk/frontline/nine/09flashback.html)
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 Scots For Independence: John Maclean
John MacLean was born to Ann and Daniel in Pollockshaws, Glasgow, on August 14th, 1879, the 6th of seven children.
John MacLean joined the Marxist party of his day in 1899, due mainly to his zeal for social justice and also Marx's recognition of the Highland Clearances, a point markedly ignored by the English left.
MacLean was by now convinced that the best way to assist the world's first worker's government was not merely to assemble communist parties of the same mould and shape, but to confront the need for socialism in every other country of the world head on.
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 John Maclean, the Scottish Workers’ Republican Party and Scottish Nationalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Maclean was convinced that a war between Britain and America, the world’s leading imperialist powers, was imminent.
At this latter date Maclean was released from his latest spell in prison and parted from the SLP which, he claimed, had neither "fire nor fighters".
Maclean was on sound and profound Leninist lines and was quite untainted by the Trotskyist exaltation of world revolution instead of getting on with the work immediately to hand".
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 John Maclean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Maclean, the second youngest of seven children, was born in Pollockshaws, Glasgow in 1879.
John did well at school and although his widowed mother was extremely poor, she was determined that he would have a good education.
Maclean joined the Social Democratic Federation and the Glasgow Teacher's Socialist Society and was active in the trade union and co-operative movements.
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 Flashback: John MacLean and the First World War - Frontline 05
We reprint here a letter written by John MacLean in September 1914 and a report of a speech made by him in December of that year.
As his daughter Nan Milton writes in her 1973 biography of her father, 'When, after the first wave of protest, the ILP and the large body of unattached socialists on the Clyde became paralysed with doubt, MacLean stood firm and gave the example that ultimately rallied all the rest.' Nor was his opposition purely literary.
Mr MacLean, in the course of his paper, said that the attitude of co-operators should be such horror of war as would compel them to take steps to eliminate all possibility of its recurrence.
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 Glossary of People: Ma
Maclean worked his way through the education system, eventually obtaining an MA at Glasgow University while working as a schoolteacher.
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart was a British philosopher who was a student of Hegel in his younger days.
Educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, Marshall was a fellow and lecturer in political economy at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1883 to 1885 and professor of political economy at the University of Cambridge from 1885 to 1908.
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 John MacLean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Norman Maclean, author of Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire (1999) and son of author Norman Maclean.
John Maclean (1851- ?), Canadian pastor and writer on Indians
John Maclean (musician), Scottish musician formerly of the Beta Band
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 john maclean home page
John MacLean sings with a voice that is honest and heartfelt.
His own songs reflect on the places where the family meets the heart, with lyrics that will linger in your mind.
"John MacLean's beautiful song 'Letter Home' is touching and revealing, sad and intimate and sung with a gentle voice and spirit..." Julie Dougherty
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 John Maclean MA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He attempted to found a new Scottish Communist Party, without success.
Young, James D. John Maclean, Clydeside Socialist 1879-1923
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