John Maclean was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist on Red Clydeside. Maclean believed that Scottish workers were especially fitted to lead the revolution, and talked of "Celtic communism", inspired by clan spirit

John Maclean was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist on Red Clydeside. He was notable for his outspoken opposition to the First World War, which caused his arrest under the Defence of the Realm Act and loss of his teaching post, after which he became a full-time Marxist lecturer and organiser. Maclean believed that Scottish workers were especially fitted to lead the revolution, and talked of "Celtic communism", inspired by clan spirit. But his launch of a Scottish Workers Republican Party and a Scottish Communist Party were largely unsuccessful.

About John MacLean: John Maclean was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist on Red Clydeside. He was notable for his outspoken opposition. But his launch of a Scottish Workers Republican Party and a Scot John Maclean was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist on Red Clydeside.

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A remarkable new book which argues that the radical right revolution engineered by. .

A remarkable new book which argues that the radical right revolution engineered by Charles and his brother David is not just about accruing political and economic power, but about restricting democracy itself. vibrant intellectual history of the radical right. It traces the career of John Buchanan, a conservative economist and his lifelong efforts to spread his movement of public choice and shape American society based on these principles. As MacLean says The United States is now at one of those historic forks in the road whose outcome will prove as fateful as those of the 1860s, the 1930s and the 1960s.

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John Maclean's swing towards the project of socialist independence for Scotland contains detailed lessons for today. Bell's biography tells the story of how a potter's son from the outskirts of Glasgow ended up schooling Lenin on the dynamics of class and nation' - Paul Mason, journalist and author. There have been other biographies of John Maclean, but this clearly written narrative by Henry Bell sets a new standard in its careful balance and judicious conclusions. Maclean emerges from the pages of the book as a more complex figure than that depicted hitherto' - Sir Tom Devine, Professor Emeritus at The University of Edinburgh.

John C. MacLean, Publisher.

Radical icon: John Maclean. It traces the development of his thought with regards to revolutionary strategy, the syndicalist belief in the mass strike to bring down the government and a later turn to nationalism. Like any worthy biography, it's as much a biography of the milieu in which the subject lived.

It has been said that they cannot fathom my motive

It has been said that they cannot fathom my motive.