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 ".

* July 27 – First Jacobite rising: Scottish Covenanter supporters of William and Mary ( under Hugh Mackay ) are defeated by Jacobite supporters of James II at the Battle of Killiecrankie near Pitlochry in Perthshire but the latter's leader, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, is killed.

While playing for Feyenoord at St Mirren in September 1983 he was racially abused and spat on by Scottish supporters.

Douglas's absence from his power base in the Lothians and the Scottish marches encouraged Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Sir David Fleming of Biggar, both firm supporters of Robert III, to take full advantage to become the principal political force in the area.

In his first season in charge-the club's centenary-Rangers won the Scottish Cup at Hampden in front of 122, 000 supporters.

| Supporting the shield on either side are the English lion and Scottish unicorn, which are also the supporters of the UK coat of arms.

Scottish loyalism is visible through participation at Orange parades with supporters from Rangers, Heart of Midlothian F. C and Airdrie United.

Supporters of Scottish independence continued to hold mixed views on the Home Rule movement which included many supporters of union who wanted devolution within the framework of the United Kingdom.

One effect is that Scottish flags are rarer than might be expected amongst both sets of supporters ; Celtic fans are more likely to wave the Irish tricolour while Rangers fans tended to wave the Union Flag.

Ever since the death of John Comyn at the hands of Robert Bruce and his supporters in 1306 the Wars of Scottish Independence had also been a civil war.

After the Jacobite Rising of 1715 ended it was evident that the most effective supporters of the Jacobites were Scottish clans in the Scottish Highlands and the Disarming Act attempted to remove this threat.

The supporters became: dexter a lion rampant guardant Or imperially crowned and sinister the Scottish unicorn.

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.

Despite Mary's actions, Elizabeth still seemed to support her cousin's claim to the Scottish throne, and Mary wrote regularly to her supporters in Scotland asking them to be faithful and to await the help she believed Elizabeth would provide.

Mar wanted help to besiege the supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots who held Edinburgh Castle, and he hoped that Morton could arrange for 12 cannons, 3000 foot soldiers, and wages for the 800 Scottish foot soldiers and 200 horsemen already in the field.

This event witnessed the Orange Lodge ( amongst other supporters ) setting up its own Scottish Unionist Party.

In September 2008 Coe controversially told reporters " Fuck ' em " when asked about the opposition to the creation of a footballing Team GB from Scottish and Welsh supporters as reported in The London Paper.

Both Rikki and his wife Kate were both strong supporters of the Scottish SPCA, of which received a financial donation following Fultons funeral.

* Celtic Supporters Club, a Scottish domestic or international supporters group of Celtic F. C.

MacCormick took many supporters with him, and set up the Scottish Union, which later became the Scottish Convention before eventually evolving into the Scottish Covenant Association.

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 ).

More recently, IWW members were involved in the Liverpool dockers ' strike that took place between 1995 and 1998, and numerous other events and struggles throughout the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), including the successful unionising of several workplaces, such as support workers for the Scottish Socialist Party.

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.

The Scottish Green Party, the Scottish Socialist Party and the Scottish Enterprise Party are most widely publicised, however all independence movements / parties are opposed by Unionists.

A nationalist and socialist, he moved from the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) to the Scottish Socialist Party, and though he cherished the Scottish republican spirit, he sought to challenge some of the popular myths surrounding the country's sense of national identity.

He became secretary of the Scottish Socialist Federation.

By 1892 he was involved in the Scottish Socialist Federation, acting as its secretary from 1895.

The Scottish Socialist Party ( SSP ) (; ) is a left-wing Scottish political party.

The Scottish Socialist Party was formed from the Scottish Socialist Alliance ( SSA ), an alliance of left-wing organisations in Scotland, Following reasonable results by the alliance in the 1997 General Election, the decision was taken to transform the SSA from an electoral alliance into a single party to contest the first elections of the new Scottish Parliament.

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.

On 29 August 2006, Tommy Sheridan announced his intention to leave the Scottish Socialist Party and found a new socialist political party called Solidarity.

The Scottish Socialist Party claims to be at the forefront of the campaign to reform local government taxation.

Fuck Abstinence is a Scottish Socialist Youth Women's Group campaign that seeks to educate young women denied adequate sex education through the distribution of information on reproductive rights and to campaign for guarantees of such education in schools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Scottish Workers Republican Party

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