Neil Findlay

Neil Findlay

Red Paper Collective

The Labour Movement Alternative for Radical Constitutional Change.

Members of the Red Paper Collective: Pauline Bryan, Jackson Cullinane, Neil Findlay MSP, John Foster, Tommy Kane, Richard Leonard, Stephen Low, Alan Mackinnon, Jennifer McCarey, Vince Mills, Tom Morrison, Stephen Smellie, Dave Watson.

Campaign for Socialism

Notable members of Campaign for Socialism include: former Convenor Elaine Smith MSP, current Convenor Neil Findlay MSP, former MP Hugh Gaffney (2017–2019), and Pauline Bryan.

Campaign for Socialism played a key role in organising Neil Findlay and Katy Clark's leadership bid in the 2014 Scottish Labour Party leadership election. Though unsuccessful, CfS claims the campaign "built the foundations for Jeremy [Corbyn]'s campaign just a few months later" by "giving many new, young volunteers experience and a network of contacts across the country that would help quickly mobilise an effective campaign".

Scottish Morning Star conference, Autumn 2022

Covid and the Economic Crisis

November 2020 with Andrew Murray, Roz Foyer, Kate Ramsden, Neil Findlay MSP, Carolyn Jones PPPS Management Cttee, Ben Chacko.

"Campaigning and Class Struggle- with Neil Findlay MSP"

Event by Forth Valley Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group, Scottish Young Labour and Michael Quinn.

The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum

After the success of our first event discussing Britain’s relationship with the EU and the alternative economic strategy, we were forced into a hiatus by the General Election.

However there is no final defeat, we are back and ready to carry on in Stirling. This event will be a discussion type event chaired by our member Shauna Angus. With Neil Findlay MSP and SEC member Enas Magzoub on the panel.

"Shifting the Balance"

Scottish Morning Star conference Autumn 2019.

Jane Carolan Institute Employment Rights IER (Scotland)
Chelsea Dunne YCL Environment Commission
Neil Findlay MSP Labour Central Scotland
Morgan Finnie Scottish Committee YCL
Tam Kirby Peoples Assembly; Unite Scottish Executive
Simon Macfarlane Unison Scotland Political Officer
Thomas Morrison Secretary Clydebank Trades Union Council
Lyn-Marie O'Hara Steward Glasgow City Unison Branch
Keith Puttick IER Associate Professor, Staffordshire University and author of The Welfare State: Wages and Work
Claire Peden Organiser, STUC
Guy Standing Professor SOAS Author of The Precariat and The Corruption of Capitalism
Margaret Wood Unite Convener West Dunbartonshire

2020 Justice for Colombia delegation

The fourth delegation of the Justice for Colombia Peace Monitor visited Colombia between 16 and 21 February 2020. Formed of European parliamentarians and trade union officials, the delegation met with diverse actors in the Colombian peace process, as well as communities, trade unions and organisations impacted by human rights violations.

The delegates on the fourth JFC Peace Monitor mission to Colombia were:

Clive Efford MP, Member of Parliament in the UK Parliament
Neil Findlay MSP, Member of Parliament in the Scottish Parliament
Adelina Escandell Grases, Senator in the Spanish state Senate
Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP, Member of Parliament in the UK Parliament
Sergio Bassoli, Political Officer, CGIL (Italy)
Josie Bird, President, UNISON (Britain and Northern Ireland)
Douglas Bruce Chalmers, President, UCU (Britain and Northern Ireland)
David Frederick Kitchen, President, NASUWT (Britain and Northern Ireland)
Margaret Mary McKee, Chair of International Committee, UNISON (Britain and Northern Ireland)

Gerry Murphy, President, ICTU (Ireland) Susan Quinn, Education Convener, EIS (Scotland) Hans Abildgard Sorensen, Regional President, 3F (Denmark)

Morning Star event

Pauline Bryan, Prof. Ruth Dukes, Jamie-Max Caldwell, Caitlin Kane, Kerry Fleck, Alison Glass, Sean Watson, Sean Baillie, Neil Findlay MSP, Michael Quinn, Roz Foyer.

Backing Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn wrote 13 September 2015 "Thank You All For Making This Happen (The Morning Star)".

THANK YOU to the Morning Star and its readers for the most incredible support throughout this leadership campaign — and for the detailed coverage of the policy proposals that we have made and the debate that these have encouraged. The campaign began in the aftermath of the Labour election defeat in May, when the party opted for the election of a new leader, rather than an extended policy debate.

After much discussion, supporters of the Socialist Campaign Group in Parliament decided that we should attempt to put up a candidate for leader, and I was duly nominated.

The 99th event was held on Thursday night in my own constituency in Islington in the biggest church we could find. Over 1,000 people crammed in to hear from Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, my great friend and colleague John McDonnell and newly elected MPs Kate Osamor, Clive Lewis, Richard Burgon, Cat Smith and Rebecca Long-Bailey.

Touching speeches were made by a number of others, including Neil Findlay MSP and longstanding Islington members and supporters including Jan Whelan, George Durack and others. Both Jan and George nominated me when I first stood for selection in 1982.^[1]