Bill Speirs
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Bill Speirs
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William MacLeod Speirs was a Scottish trade union leader, a socialist and internationalist. He was General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. Speirs was a key figure in left-wing Scottish politics, chairing the Scottish council of the Labour party at the 1987 general election, and being a prominent member of various groups of the Bennite left, e.g. the Labour Co-ordinating Committee and Scottish Labour Action. Speirs was also a high-profile advocate of Scottish devolution, e.g. he
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British politician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Speirs
date created:
2009-09-23T16:01:07Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T03:06:32Z
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