Adrian Weir
Adrian Weir
National Policy Forum
In 2022 Cam Rose, Dave Levy, Carol Turner and Adrian Weir were candidates for the Labour Party National Policy Forum.
Latin America Conference 2021
Around 400 activists attended this year’s crucial Latin America Conference at Friends House in London on Saturday after unfortunately having to postpone the event in 2020 due to the on-going pandemic. The conference came at a crucial time for the region with progressive electoral victories in Nicaragua, Venezuela and most recently in Honduras.
Adrian Weir, from Unite the Union, opened the conference by welcoming recent progressive election victories
‘Socialists, trade unionists and progressives around the world have been inspired by left election victories across the continent again in recent years - the so called 'pink tide' is back, and with a vengeance.’
He introduced former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP, Ambassador Rocio Maniero, and Kate Hudson from CND. Spanish MP and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, Enrique Santiago joined the plenary via video message.
“The region has changed, firstly with the arrival of AMLO in Mexico, the construction of progressive governments in Argentina, and Venezuela and Cuba emerging from brutal aggression by the United States”.
General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BAFWU), Sarah Woolley was joined by TUC’s Mariela Kohon, Simon Dubbins, Unite, and Guisell Morales-Echaverry, Nicaraguan Ambassador for the second plenary titled, “Latin American Workers Fighting Back!”
Delegates were also treated to video messages from across Latin America fromManuel Diaz Tapia, Vice President of CUT Chile, Rosana Fernandez, Anti-Racism Committee, CUT Brazil and Julia Cabarcas, President of the Colombian Women’s Association.[1]
CSC Leadership
In 2019 Adrian Weir, Luis Santamaria, Bob Oram, Francisco Dominguez, Dr. Lauren Collins and Wendy Emmett served on the Cuba Solidarity Campaign executive committee.[2][3]
Communist Party conference on Russian Revolution
Communist Party conference on Russian Revolution London November 4 2017.
Plenary: "The Impact of the Russian Revolution in Britain"
Speakers: Mary Davis, Richard Leonard, Tosh McDonald (chair) and Adrian Weir.