Nigel Flanagan

Nigel Flanagan is the senior organizer for UNI Global Union, which represents 20 million workers from over 900 trade unions in the skills and services sector.

He is also a contributor to the Communist Party of Britain's Unity.

The Red Uni

Roger McKenzie, Johnbosco Nwogbo, Nigel Flanagan, Andrew Murray, Maise Riley, Georgina Andrews, Tom Unterrainer, Suzanne Jefferey, Nigel Flanagan, Dr. Maurice Chiodo, Prof James Crossley, Dr. Lucy Burke, Steve Marsling.

Tom Mann Internationalist Tour 2024

Date & Time March 23, 2024.

Mann is one of the best known trade unionists and spent nearly a decade in Australia organising unions and political forces and leading the famous Coal Miners Strike at Broken Hill.

This meeting will explore the many ways Tom Mann’s legacy has impacted on workers in Australia and Britain and the strong bond of internationalism that has existed between the labour movements of both countries.

Speakers

• Jo Kowalczyk - Chief Executive Officer· Women in Super, was an organiser in the National Tertiary Education Union and Chief of Staff at the NSW Teachers Federation organising education workers. Jo is now CEO of ‘Women in Super’ a not for profit advocacy group campaigning to make pensions for women a major workplace and trade union issue.
• Casey Thompson - Compliance Officer·CFMMEU (Manufacturing Division). Casey oversees the ACTU’s Centre for Workers’ Capital and superannuation work across Australia and internationally.
• Phil Katz - Activist and author. Author activist Phil Katz is currently touring Australia speaking to large audiences - union delegates, workplace representatives, at Trades Halls in Sydney and Melbourne, industrial councils and in universities - about his book 'Tom Mann - Yours for the revolution.' Phil is a graphic designer and lifelong union organiser. His books have been published on subjects ranging from Unemployment, William Morris, Historical Revisionism and the impact of the EU. He is a member of Unite the Union.
• Nigel Flanagan - Global Union Organiser and author, ‘Our Trade Unions’, Manifesto Press 2022. Nigel is a political activist and union organiser based in Liverpool in the UK. He has been an activist for many years before becoming a Global union organiser working in Africa, India, Russia and Palestine. His book ‘ Our Trade Unions’ about the recent UK strike wave, has been described as a ‘bruising read’ for many unions. Nigel is currently a leading Stop the War activist in the North of England.
• Gawain Little - General Secretary· General Federation of Trade Union. Gawain Little is the current General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU). He is the co-author Lessons in Organising What Trade Unionists Can Learn from The War On Teachers (Pluto, 2023). Prior to the GFTU, he was a teacher for over 20 years and activist. This included being a workplace rep, local branch officer and National Executive member of the National Education Union (NEU). Gawain chaired the International Solidarity Committee of the NEU and edited the journal Education for Tomorrow.
• Kate Taylor - National Executive member, National Education Union. Kate is a primary school teacher. National Education Union (NEU) workplace rep, and National Executive member
• Dr. Emma Runswick - Deputy Chair of Council, British Medical Association. Emma is a junior doctor in psychiatry in NW England. Deputy Chair of BMA Council, a union still engaged in multiple pay disputes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Damien Cahill - General Secretary, National Tertiary Education Union.
• Luke Whitington - Chief Executive Officer, SEARCH Foundation. In the past three years Luke has led my present employer, the SEARCH Foundation, through an extensive change and growth process, involving major financial, organisational and commnication transformation. Prior to that he worked at Federal and State Parliaments for ten years as a policy and media advisor.

2023 CPB Executive committee

November 6, 2023.

Our 57th Congress elected the following comrades to our new 35 member Executive Committee, the body tasked with driving forward the growth of our Party over the next two years:

• Nisar Ahmed • Georgina Andrews • Mollie Brown • Ron Brown • Sean David Cannon • Judith Cazorla-Rodenas • Ben Chacko • Andy Chaffer • Tony Conway • James Crossley • Mary Davis • Lorraine Douglas • Nigel Flanagan • Alex Gordon • Robert Griffiths • Richard Hebbert • Victoria Holmes • Johnnie Hunter • Hugh Kirkbride • Mark Jones • Gawain Little • Ben Lunn • Stephanie Martin • Roger McKenzie • David Morgan • Kevan Nelson • Helen O'Connor • Christiane Ohsan • Liz Payne • Ruth Pitman • Dan Ross • Carol Stavris • Keith Stoddart • Ruth Styles • Jonathan White

Merseyside communist

The Communist Party of Britain committed to work to build a militant shop stewards’ movement at their 57th Congress November 2023, resolving that “the strength of the trade union movement can be linked directly, though not exclusively, to the collective power of workers on the shop floor.”

Merseyside delegate Nigel Flanagan warned that trade unions, “despite a summer of outstanding action and some successes, are still suffering from long-term trends of decline.

“Even during the strike wave, trade union membership declined by another 200,000 — 122,000 of them were women workers in the private sector,” he stressed.

Morning Star Supporters

Morning Star Supporters is a public Facebook group affiliated with the Communist Party of Britain. Members include Nigel Flanagan .