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Alec Geddes, the Glossary

Alexander Geddes (born 1878) was a Scottish communist activist.^[1]

26 relations: Amalgamated Engineering Union, British Socialist Party, Clyde Workers' Committee, Communism, Communist Labour Party (Scotland), Communist Party of Great Britain, Fred Shaw (socialist activist), Greenock, Greenock (UK Parliament constituency), Independent Labour Party, John Gollan, John Maclean (Scottish socialist), Labour council, Labour Party (UK), Red Army, Scottish people, Soviet Union, The Herald (Glasgow), Torpedo, Wick, Caithness, World War I, 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1922 United Kingdom general election, 1923 United Kingdom general election, 1924 United Kingdom general election, 1929 United Kingdom general election.
Communist Party of Great Britain councillors
Councillors in Scotland
Scottish communists

Amalgamated Engineering Union

The Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) was a major British trade union.

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The British Socialist Party (BSP) was a Marxist political organisation established in Great Britain in 1911.

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Clyde Workers' Committee

The Clyde Workers Committee was formed to campaign against the Munitions Act.

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Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Communist Labour Party (Scotland)

The Communist Labour Party was a communist party in Scotland. Alec Geddes and communist Labour Party (Scotland) are Scottish communists.

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Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups.

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Fred Shaw (25 May 1881 – 22 January 1951) was a British socialist activist and trade unionist. Alec Geddes and Fred Shaw (socialist activist) are communist Party of Great Britain councillors.

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Greenock

Greenock (Greenock; Grianaig) is a town in Inverclyde, Scotland, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Greenock (UK Parliament constituency)

Greenock was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1974, when it was abolished and its area was merged into the new Greenock and Port Glasgow constituency.

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Independent Labour Party

The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893 at a conference in Bradford, after local and national dissatisfaction with the Liberals' apparent reluctance to endorse working-class candidates.

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John Gollan

John Gollan (2 April 1911 – 5 September 1977) was a British political leader who was general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from 1956 to 1975.

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John Maclean (24 August 1879 – 30 November 1923) was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era. Alec Geddes and John Maclean (Scottish socialist) are Scottish communists.

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Labour council

A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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Torpedo

A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.

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Wick, Caithness

Wick (Inbhir Ùige; Week) is a town and royal burgh in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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1918 United Kingdom general election

The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday, 14 December 1918.

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1922 United Kingdom general election

The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922.

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1923 United Kingdom general election

The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923.

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1924 United Kingdom general election

The 1924 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the Labour minority government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence.

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1929 United Kingdom general election

The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Geddes

Also known as Alex Geddes.