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| The JOHN MACLEAN 75thANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION |
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| Biography: John MacLean (1879-1923) was a Scottish schoolteacher and Marxist educator. His Marxist evening-classes produced many of the activists who became instrumental in the Clyde revolts during and after WWI. MacLean was appointed both an Honorary President of the first Congress of Soviets and Soviet Consul to Scotland in recognition of his consistent socialist position on the imperialist war and his tireless work in support of the Bolshevik revolution. MacLean was at odds with much of the British left and dismissive of the newly-formed Communist Party of Great Britain. He had already turned his back on economism and the syndicalism favoured by the Clyde Workers' Committee, had recognised the nature of British imperialism and come to the conclusion that revolution could only come about through the destruction of the British Empire. He died on 30th November, 1923. | |
| SPEECHES & ARTICLES | |
| 1907 | Time-saving and Karl Marx First published in Justice, 14 December 1907 The Greenock 'Jungle' First published as a pamphlet in 1907 |
| 1908 | An Affair of Outposts Published In Justice 23 May Education in Scotland Published in Justice 19 September Great Britain and Germany Published in Justice 5 December |
| 1911 | The Foundation of the British Socialist Party First published in Justice December 9, 1911 |
| 1917 | Letter on first release from prison First published in The Call, 19 July 1917 Lead from Lanarkshire First published in The Call, 9 August 1917 Working Class Education First published in The Call, 6 September 1917 Clyde Labour First published in The Call, 11 October 1917 Russian Political Refugees Defence Committee First published in The Call, 29 November 1917 |
| 1918 | letter First published in The Call, 18 April 1918 Speech from the Dock Delivered at the High Court, Edinburgh on May 9, 1918 Release First published in The Call, 12 December 1918 An Acid Test of Sincerity First published in The Call, 29 December 1918 |
| The War After the War The War After the War in the Light of Working Class Economics Glasgow Economics Class pamphlet No.1 Published by the Scottish Labour College. |
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| 1919 | Now's the Day and Now's the Hour First published in The Call, January 23, 1919 Coal and Cotton First published in The Call, March 20, 1919 The Coal Compromise First published in The Call, March 27, 1919 Will Capitalism Collapse? First published in The Call August 28, 1919 Capitalists Everywhere Accept Marxism First published in The Worker, November 1, 1919 The Trade Union Congress and After First published in The Call, 25 September, 1919 |
| 1920 | Away with the Idle Rich First published in The Call, 22 January 1920 "The Vanguard" resurrected First published in The Vanguard, May 1920 The Irish Tragedy: Scotland's Disgrace.. First published as a pamphlet in 1920 The Unemployed First published in The Vanguard, November 1920 A Scottish Communist Party First published in The Vanguard, December, 1920 |
| 1921 | Open letter to Lenin First published in The Socialist January 30, 1921 |
| 1923 | Election Manifesto 1923 Candidature of John MacLean M.A.,Republican, 23rd November 1923 |
| Related material: | The John MacLean March by Hamish Henderson The Ballad of John MacLean by Matt McGinn |
