Alex Wood (born 1950, Dundee) is a former Labour leader of Edinburgh City Council in Scotland.
In the early 1970s Wood was a leading figure in the entryist Militant tendency in Scotland who left that party after it decided to support the creation of a devolved Scottish Assembly.
[9][10] Members of the Labour group of councillors felt however that his politics were further left than theirs and in May 1986 voted they had no confidence in his leadership.
[11][12] Subsequently, Wood resigned his council seat,[13][14] left Labour and joined the 1988 version of the Scottish Socialist Party.
[17][18] A teacher by profession, he retired as headteacher of Wester Hailes Education Centre in Edinburgh in August 2011.