| A RCG Archive and a Scottish Republican Socialist Movement Arhcive, both mirrored by the Marxists Internet Archive We would like to thank both the RCG and the SRSM for their help in making the John MacLean Internet Archive as complete as it is. We have combined the best of both archives in the JMIA development. The style and appearance of this index page we owe to the comrades at the RCG site. |
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Biography: (See also the FULL MacLean’s Biography on this site) 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. |
| SPEECHES & ARTICLES | |
| 1907 | Reflections on Belfast First published in Justice, 24 August 1907 The ‘Great Contradiction’ of Marx First published in Justice, 14 December 1907 Time-saving and Karl Marx [6.5Kb] First published in Justice, 14 December 1907 The Greenock ’Jungle’ [35.6Kb] First published as a pamphlet in 1907 |
| 1908 | Education in Scotland First published in Justice, 23 May 1908 An Affair of Outposts First published in Justice, 19 September 1908 Great Britain and Germany First published in Justice, 5 December 1908 |
| 1909 | Karl Marx and the Labour Party [12.8Kb] |
| 1910 | A Workers’ Party
Necessary, but Labour Party Useless [12Kb] First published as a pamphlet in 1910 The Labour Party Muddle 1910[12Kb] Forward, 6 August 1910 Why a Labour Party? Come out! [8.5Kb] Forward, 30 July 1910 My Objections [8.2 Kb] Forward, 30 July 1910 Why a Labour Party? [8.2 Kb] Forward,, 13 August 1910 Inflation [9.5 Kb] (Letter in Justice,12 November 1910) |
| 1911 |
The Rise in
Prices [20Kb] First published in Justice December 9, 1911 The Foundation of the British Socialist Party [6.5Kb] Forward, 7 January 1911 Cooperation and Rise In Prices [28Kb] Speech to the Renfrewshire Co-operative Conference, 25 November 1911 |
| 1912 |
Co-operation and Trusts First published in The British Socialist, April 1912 |
| 1914 |
The War and Its Outcome [8Kb] Justice, September 1914 |
| 1915 |
Zimmerwald [11Kb] The Vanguard, October 1915 |
| 1916 |
A Labour College for Scotland [9Kb] Prepared by John MacLean & finished by Jas.D. MacDougall while MacLean was imprisioned in 1916. A Plea For A Labour College For Scotland [24Kb] |
| 1917 |
Letter on first release from prison Published in The Call, July 1917 Demand Petroff’s Release Published in The Call, August 1917 The Lead from Lanarkshire Published in The Call, August 1917 Independence in Working Class Education Published in The Call, September 1917 Clyde Labour Published in The Call, October 1917 Russian Political Refugees Defence Committee Published in The Call, November 1917 The Release of John Maclean: Special Message to “The Call” Published in The Call, December 1917 |
| 1918 |
Letter Letter published in The Call, April 1918 Speech from the Dock [48Kb] Delivered at the High Court, Edinburgh on May 9, 1918 The War After the War [35Kb] The War After the War in the Light of Working Class Economics Glasgow Economics Class pamphlet No.1 Published by the Scottish Labour College. An Acid Test of Sincerity Published in The Call, December 1918 |
| 1919 |
Now’s the Day and
Now’s the Hour [7Kb] First published in The Call, January 23, 1919 Maclean in Cumberland Published in The Call, February 4, 1919 The Coal Situation Published in The Call, March 6, 1919 Coal and Cotton Published in The Call, March 20, 1919 The Coal Compromise Published in The Call, March 27, 1919 Maclean in the Colne Valley Published in The Call, June 5, 1919 Will Capitalism Collapse? [11Kb] First published in The Call August 28, 1919 The Trade Union Congress and After Published in The Call, September 25, 1919 Points About the Strike Published in The Call, October 9, 1919 The Miners’ Next Move Published in The Call, October 23, 1919 Labour’s Commissariat Department Published in The Call, October 30, 1919 Capitalists Everywhere Accept Marxism [16Kb] First published in The Worker, November 1, 1919 On with the Revolution Published in The Call, November 6, 1919 Burn Bradbury & Down with Prices Published in The Call, November 27, 1919 The Cure for High Prices: Burn Bradbury Published in The Call, December 4, 1919 High Prices! Bonar Law’s Admission! Burn Bradbury! Published in The Call, December 9, 1919 High Prices and Low Wages Published in The Call, December 16, 1919 The Coming War With America [19Kb] Issued as a pamphlet, Winter 1919 Sack Dalrymple, sack Stevenson: The Forty-hour Strike[10 Kb] Issued as a pamphlet, Winter 1919 |
| 1920 |
High Prices! Bradbury Burned Published in The Call, January 1, 1920 Away with the Idle Rich [6.5Kb] First published in The Call, 22 January 1920 Inflation and High Prices Published in The Call, 29 January 1920 Lenin v. Loyd George: British Materialism and British Idealism Published in The Call, 26 February 1920 "The Vanguard" resurrected [5.9Kb] First published in The Vanguard, May 1920 The Irish Tragedy: Scotland’s Disgrace. [36Kb] First published as a pamphlet in 1920 One Big Union [7.5Kb] First published in The Vanguard, July 1920 Irish Stew [36Kb] First published in The Vanguard, August 1920 Scotch Broth [6.5Kb] First published in The Vanguard, September 1920 Highland Land Seizures [11Kb] First published in The Vanguard, September 1920 The Unemployed [5.8Kb] First published in The Vanguard, November 1920 Literary Note [3Kb] First published in The Vanguard, November 1920 Is Capitalism Collapsing?: A Rejoinder to Mary E. Marcy Published in The Call, November 13, 1920 A Scottish Communist Party [6.5Kb] First published in The Vanguard, December, 1920 |
| 1921 | Open letter to
Lenin [11.5Kb] First published in The Socialist January 30, 1921 To the Electors of Kinning Park Ward [8Kb] Given in the Duke Street Prison The Unemployed: Will There be a General Strike? [8Kb] First published in The Socialist 27 January 1921 |
| 1922 | All Hail, the Scottish
Workers Republic! [10Kb] First issued as All Hail, the Scottish Communist Republic in Aug 1920, and subsequently reissued along with Nov 1922 election address. Election Address [16Kb] Candidature of John MacLean M.A.,Republican, November 1922 Explanation Of Election Address [16Kb] November 1922 The Irish Tragedy: Up Scottish Revolutionists! [3Kb] First published in The Vanguard, November 1922 Red Flag Flutters [10Kb] Issued together with November 1922 election address |
| 1923 | Election Manifesto
1923 [11.5Kb] Candidature of John MacLean M.A.,Republican, 23rd November 1923 Municipal Election Address [9.5Kb] November, 1923, used by all SWRP candidates in Glasgow, 6 November 1923 Municipal Election Address To The Electors Of The Thirtieth Ward [5.5Kb] February 14, 1923 |
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