Scottish communists: Sorley MacLean, John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, John Maclean, Norman McLaren, Jimmy Reid, Hugh MacDiarmid, Willie Gallacher, Tom Bell, Mick McGahey, Arthur MacManus, Bob Stewart, James Litterick, Harry McShane, James Maley

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: Sorley MacLean, John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, John Maclean, Norman McLaren, Jimmy Reid, Hugh MacDiarmid, Willie Gallacher, Tom Bell, Mick McGahey, Arthur MacManus, Bob Stewart, James Litterick, Harry McShane, James Maley, William Paul, Hyman Levy, Bill Warren, Communist Party of Scotland, Ernest Rogers, Workers Party of Scotland, Communist Labour Party, Leninist League, Scottish Workers Republican Party, Dave Leadbetter. Excerpt: John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, PC (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician, who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) and cabinet minister under Tony Blair, most notably as Defence Secretary (2005-06) and then Home Secretary (2006-07). He is also currently the Chairman of the Scottish Premier League football club Celtic. Born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland to a working class Roman Catholic family, Reid was initially a Communist however has since refuted this belief. He worked as a researcher for the Labour Party, before being elected to the House of Commons at the 1987 General Election as MP for Motherwell North (changed to Hamilton & North Bellshill (1997-2005), then Airdrie and Shotts (2005-10)). Upon Labour's return to government in 1997, Reid has held numerous posts in the cabinet of Tony Blair, his first being Secretary of State for Scotland in 1999. Other posts he held include Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Health Secretary, Defence Secretary and Home Secretary. He resigned from the cabinet in 2007 following Gordon Brown's appointment as Prime Minister, and did not seek re-election as an MP at the 2010 general election. Instead he was made a peer. Reid took a leading role in the campaign for a 'No' vote alongside the Conservative Party leader David Cameron in the AV referendum in 2011. Born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, Reid comes from mining stock. His parents were Roman Catholic and his grandparents were of mixed denomination. His grandfather was "a staunch Church of Scotland Presbyterian and his grandmother a poor and illiterate Irish peasant." His mother, Mary, was a factory worker and father, Thomas, was a postman with a passionate belief in education being the means of liberating the working classes. Reid attributes his success to hard work and a good education. Like his successor as Scottish Secretary, Helen Liddell he attended St Patrick's Secondary School, Coatbridge. The headmaster of St Patrick's,