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By Kenny McGuigan
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Friday, 25 August 2006 |
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Lenin
considered MacLean an outstanding revolutionary and when plans were made to
form a Communist Party in Britain Lenin was anxious that MacLean should play a
leading role in it. MacLean, while defending the Bolshevik Revolution, refused
to join the newly formed Communist Party, a grave mistake which prevented him
from playing the role he could have played in these crucial years. In spite of
his mistakes MacLean remains an outstanding Scottish revolutionary.
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By Kenny McGuigan
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
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MacLean
came to realise that the Social Democracy throughout Europe,
while strong on rhetoric was weak in substance. MacLean on the other hand
maintained his principled and selfless approach. No matter what political
distortions are made about John MacLean he was never in politics for himself or
his own personal glory.
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By Kenny McGuigan
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Monday, 07 August 2006 |
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Some
will seek to dismiss the ideas and programme for which John MacLean gave his
life as being outdated. It is hoped that this modest contribution will revive
those ideas and contribute towards the real memory of John MacLean - the
greatest revolutionary Scotland
has ever produced.
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By Ted Grant
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Wednesday, 14 April 2004 |
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This book by Ted Grant is a unique contribution to the history of
British Trotskyism. It begins with the debate on Trotskyism in the
British Communist Party in 1924 and ends with the break-up of the
Revolutionary Communist Party in 1949 and the beginning of more than
thirty years of work within the Labour Party. Ted Grant was the founder
and political leader of the “Militant Tendency”, which haunted the
Labour leadership, and was eventually expelled along with the Militant
editorial board in 1983. A postscript by Rob Sewell, who was the
national organiser for the Militant throughout the 1980s, brings this
unique history up to date. |
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By Rob Sewell
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Monday, 17 November 2003 |
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There are many narrative histories
of the struggles of British workers. However Rob Sewell’s book is different. The
purpose of this history of British trade unionism is not only to recite the
wrongs inflicted on working people, or simply to describe their heroic
struggles. It is an attempt to draw out the lessons of the events that helped
shape the Labour movement, and made it what it is. This is a book that sets out
from the proposition that the interests between capital and labour are
incompatible and takes sides in the war between the classes. |
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