Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

Almost all of the larger far-left parties in Britain are led by Trotskyists, including the Socialist Workers Party ( Britain ), the Socialist Party ( England and Wales ), Respect – The Unity Coalition and the Scottish Socialist Party.

Workers went on strike in 14 English and 8 Scottish counties, principally in the Midlands, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, and the Strathclyde region of Scotland.

In Scotland, Connolly's thinking was hugely influential for socialists such as John Maclean, who would similarly combine his leftist thinking with nationalist ideas when he formed his Scottish Workers Republican Party.

The period following that election saw sustained growth for the SSP, including a boost to membership when the Socialist Workers Party in Scotland joined the SSP, and the Scottish section of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers affiliated to the party.

Through prioritising independence as a key component in its political philosophy, it stands in the tradition of John Maclean who set up the Scottish Workers Republican Party in the early part of the 20th century, combining socialist economics with Scottish independence policies.

Two of the former platforms in the SSP both emerged from British Section of the Committee for a Workers ' International, following the " Open Turn " debate of the early 1990s, which was largely led by Scottish members.

* The Scottish supporters of the Socialist Workers Party ( 2003 – 2006 ) joined the SSP in 2002 becoming the Socialist Workers Platform despite strong reservations from then members.

Between 1998 and January 2001 the Scottish section of the Committee for a Workers ' International ( CWI ), Scottish Militant Labour, proposed the formation of the Scottish Socialist Party with a number of other groups, together with a change in the political character of the Scottish section.

The Scottish Workers Republican Party ( SWRP ) was formed by the Scottish Marxist activist John Maclean ( 1879-1923 ) in the 1910s.

An organisation which resurrected the name Scottish Workers Republican Party was formed in 1974 as a split from the Scottish Republican Socialist Clubs ( forerunner of the Scottish Republican Socialist Party ).

Workers Republican Party, Scottish

Workers Republican Party, Scottish

The group has international links with the Solidarity Tendency, who are members of the Scottish Socialist Party, Workers ' Liberty Australia and supporters within the Revolutionary Left Current in Poland and Solidarity in the United States.

* The Scottish Republican Socialist Movement ( 1999 – 2006 ) whose major focus is independence for a Scottish Republic, emerged from the Scottish Republican Socialist Party which was one of the founding platforms of the SSP.

The Scottish Republican Socialist Party ( SRSP ) was a political party operating in Scotland.

They were formed out of the Scottish Republican Socialist Clubs, formed in 1973 to introduce socialism to the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) and grow support for Scottish independence amongst left-wingers who supported the retention of the Union with the rest of the United Kingdom.

An additional problem was competition in the Liberal heartlands in Scotland and Wales from the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru who both grew as electoral forces from the 1960s onwards.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

* In 2005, David McLetchie, leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party is forced to resign after claiming the highest taxi expenses of any MSP.

The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

It was addressed by Labour MPs Jon Trickett, Emily Thornberry, John McDonnell ( politician ) | John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, and Elfyn Llwyd of Plaid Cymru and Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party.

Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

Following the return of the Labour Party to government in 1997, Dewar became the Secretary of State for Scotland and campaigned for a ' Yes-Yes ' vote in the successful referendum on Scottish devolution.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

He was returned at a by-election on 13 April 1978, an important victory which was seen as halting the rise of the Scottish National Party.

The first elections to the Scottish Parliament were held on 6 May 1999, with Dewar leading the Scottish Labour Party against their main opponents, the SNP under Alex Salmond.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

In that election five regionalist parties got seats: the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) of Northern Ireland, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ), the Flemish People's Union ( VU ), the Walloon Democratic Front of Francophones ( FDF ) and the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ).

The other members of the Bureau are all vice-presidents: Jill Evans ( Plaid Cymru ), Gustave Alirol ( Occitan Party ), Fabrizio Comencini ( Liga Veneta Repubblica ), Ana Miranda Paz ( Galician Nationalist Bloc ), Ian Hudghton ( Scottish National Party ), Sybren Posthumus ( Frisian National Party ), Sebastian Colio ( Basque Solidarity ), Dimitrios Ioannou ( Rainbow ), Rolf Granlund ( Future of Åland ), Reinhild Campidell ( South Tyrolean Freedom ) and Lucy Collyer ( Majorca Socialist Party ).

The growing importance of the working classes was marked by Keir Hardie's success in the Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888, leading to the foundation of the Scottish Labour Party, which was absorbed into the Independent Labour Party in 1895, with Hardie as its first leader.

With all the main parties committed to the Union, new nationalist and independent political groupings began to emerge, including the National Party of Scotland in 1928 and Scottish Party in 1930.

The Republican government was supported by a number of factions with conflicting aims, including the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM – Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista ), the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ( a wing of the Spanish Communist Party, which was backed by Soviet arms and aid ).

The Heimwehr ( German: Home Defense ) became affiliated with the Christian Social Party and the Republikanischer Schutzbund ( German: Republican Defense League ) became affiliated with the Social Democratic Workers ' Party of Austria.

Three other parties ( Socialists ' Party of Catalonia – Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party, PSC-PSOE, Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ) and Initiative for Catalonia Greens ( ICV )) united to take the government, making Pasqual Maragall, ( PSC-PSOE ) the new president.

Orwell was a member of the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) militia and suffered suppression and escaped arrest by the Comintern faction working within the Republican Government.

However, in RTÉ she and Alex White ( then TV producer and now Labour Party TD ) were attacked and criticised by a group led by Eoghan Harris associated with the Workers ' Party over what they perceived as her bias towards Republican groups in the North.

Defining himself as a " giscardien ", he joined the staff of Lionel Stoléru, Secretary of state for Manual Workers and Immigration, and the Republican Party, the liberal-conservative component of the centre-right confederation the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ).

They were particularly active in supporting the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and around twenty-five members and sympathisers ( including George Orwell ) went to Spain to assist the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) as part of an ILP Contingent of volunteers.

On November 12, 2005, most of the provisional grouping ( independent members, and members of the Alliance for Workers ' Liberty, Alliance for Green Socialism, the Communist Party of Great Britain ( not to be confused with the former CPGB which dissolved in 1991 ), the Democratic Socialist Alliance, the Republican Communist Network ( Scotland ), the Revolutionary Democratic Group, the Socialist Unity Network, the United Socialist Party, and the Walsall Democratic Labour Party ) met again and claimed the name of the Socialist Alliance for a re-founded political organisation, registered with the Electoral Commission.

The Popular Front included the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ), Communist Party of Spain ( PCE ), the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM, independent communist ) and the republicans: Republican Left ( IR ), ( led by Azaña ) and Republican Union Party ( UR ), led by Diego Martínez Barrio.

In the election of November 1946, the PCF received the most votes of any party, finishing narrowly ahead of the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ) and the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ).

The party later used the name " The Workers Party Republican Clubs ".

The most notable were the Socialist Workers Tendency, organised around members of the Socialist Workers ' Movement which left in 1980, the Workers Alliance for Action organised around members of the Irish Workers ' Group which left in 1979 and the Republican Socialist Tendency, organised around members of People's Democracy, which also left in 1979.