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Alan McCombes is a Scottish political activist and journalist. He was born in 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for his work as a political commentator and campaigner for the Scottish Socialist Party. McCombes was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he studied politics and economics. After graduating, he worked as a journalist for the Glasgow Herald and the Sunday Herald. He then became a political commentator for the BBC and Channel 4. McCombes was a founding member of the Scottish Socialist Party in 1998 and was the party's national spokesperson from 1999 to 2006. He was also a member of the Scottish Parliament from 2003 to 2007. McCombes is currently a political commentator for the BBC and a columnist for the Sunday Herald. He is also a regular contributor to the Guardian and the New Statesman. McCombes is 65 years old. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs around 75 kgs. He has not been involved in any public relationships. McCombes has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his career as a political commentator and campaigner.

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2014

McCombes held the position of policy co-ordinator for the SSP for a number of years. In this role encouraged comrades to rethink the educational approach within the party and adopt more Marxist styles of engagement, influenced in particular by Paulo Freire. He has also argued that the party should embrace more diffuse structures than the traditional models of socialist parties — championing the introduction of issue-based networks in addition to the geographic branch structure. Alongside Tommy Sheridan, he co-wrote Imagine: A Socialist Vision for the 21st Century.

2011

In June 2011, he published Downfall, his account of the Sheridan affair.

2010

In 2010 he was also a witness in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. During the trial it emerged that he was the author of an affidavit to the Sunday Herald which detailed that the party had asked Sheridan to resign as convenor, citing "certain information" in the party's possession. Contrary to prior speculation it emerged that the affidavit did not contain details of the party's 9 November executive meeting.

In the 2010s, McCombs moved to Perthshire to work for the John Muir Trust which works to defend wild land, enhance habitats and encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to connect with wild places. In 2014, he and Roz Paterson published Restless Land: A Radical Journey Through Scotland's History.

2006

As part of the Sheridan v News International defamation trial, he appeared at the Court of Session on 16 May 2006 following a demand by News International to hand over confidential internal SSP executive committee minutes. He refused On 26 May 2006 he was jailed for 12 days and his home was raided by Messengers at Arms after he refused to comply with the order to hand over the documents. He was released on 29 May after a decision by the SSP national council to hand the minutes over to the court.

On 7 July 2006, McCombes gave evidence in the defamation proceedings launched by Tommy Sheridan against the News of the World stating that Sheridan had admitted to him that he had visited swingers clubs. His version of events was supported by ten other people who were present at the meeting and matched the minutes of the meeting presented in court, though these were disputed during the court case.

In August 2006, in the aftermath of the Sheridan defamation case, McCombes publicly released an all-members bulletin addressed to members of the SSP, entitled "The Fight for the Truth" in which he said Tommy Sheridan's libel victory over the News of the World "could set back the cause of socialism by years if not decades" because of the divisions that had occurred within the party and went on to give his view of the events leading up to the trial. He also condemned Tommy Sheridan's announcement to stand for election as convenor of the SSP and said that Tommy Sheridan's support had been "based on the more middle class and rural sections of the party" and were "united only by their hostility to the majority of the leadership".

2005

He announced his candidacy for convenor of the SSP on 19 January 2005. At the party conference on 13 February, he won 154 votes from SSP delegates, losing by 98 to Colin Fox. He was a leading member of the ISM platform until its dissolution in 2006.

2003

McCombes co-ordinated the SSP's electoral campaign for the 2003 Scottish Parliament election, which saw the return of 6 MSPs for the party.

1996

In 1996, McCombes established the Scottish Socialist Voice as a new fortnightly paper of the left, which he edited until 2003. This later became the newspaper of the Scottish Socialist Party.

1992

In 1992 McCombes was a leading figure in the persuading Militant in Scotland to break with Labour resulting in the creation of Scottish Militant Labour. Throughout the 1990s, he challenged the traditional "British Road to Socialism", arguing for the left to champion the idea of an independent Scottish socialist republic. In 1995, he called for a Scottish Socialist Alliance to unite the left. This was established six months later, laying the basis for the emergence of the SSP.

1970

McCombes first became involved in socialist politics in the 1970s, as a member of the Militant group. Together with Tommy Sheridan he played a leading role in the anti-poll tax movement. His 1988 pamphlet, How To Beat The Poll Tax, written a year before the tax was introduced, set out the strategy of a Scotland-wide united mass non-payment campaign.

1955

Alan William McCombes (born 1955) has been a leading member of the Scottish Socialist Party for several years, and was the editor of the Scottish Socialist Voice until 2003.