Political activist and arts administrator;
Born: November 13, 1956; Died: July 14, 2012.
ROBERT McLean, who has died aged 55, was a leading figure in the "Nationalist wing" of Labour politics in Scotland. He was a key figure of those who, in the front room of Jack McConnell's then Stirling home, established Scottish Labour Action (SLA), a pro-Home Rule grouping impatient to deliver a devolved Assembly in Edinburgh, and equally impatient with old-fashioned Scottish Left politics.
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