Pauline Bryan, Baroness Bryan of Partick

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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Bryan of Partick
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Bryan in 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
2 July 2018
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1950-01-03) 3 January 1950 (age 74)
Political party Labour

Pauline Christina Bryan, Baroness Bryan of Partick (born 3 January 1950) [1] is a Scottish writer and socialist campaigner. She was nominated for a life peerage by the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, in May 2018. [2] [3] On 20 June, she was created Baroness Bryan of Partick, of Partick in the City of Glasgow. [4]

Bryan is part of the Red Paper Collective, a group of Labour activists who aim to provide an alternative from the perspective of the Labour movement to the "sterile nationalist v unionist debate" around the Scottish independence referendums. [5] Bryan reviewed Neil Findlay's book about his bid for the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party, Socialism & Hope: A Journey Through Turbulent Times, for the Morning Star in 2017. In her review Bryan wrote that the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party "was a lifeline for the left. It rebuilt friendships and enthusiasm. ... By the 2017 election, we saw the beginnings of a renewed Scottish Labour Party and a renewed activist base who, regardless of what their MPs and MSPs thought, were committing themselves to a radical Labour Party". [6]

Bryan is a founding member of the Keir Hardie Society, and was the editor of the 2015 book What Would Keir Hardie Say?. [7] She is also a founding member of the Campaign for Socialism. [8]

In October 2023, Bryan and eight others resigned from the executive board of the Glasgow Kelvin Constituency Labour Party following the comments of Keir Starmer on the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. [9] The councillors resigned because a motion submitted to the Glasgow Kelvin Labour party was ruled "out of order and should not be debated at party meetings". [10] This was after "Labour Officials" wrote CLP's stating that "any motions" about Gaza would be "out of order and should not be debated at party meetings". [11] The motion called for the cessation of Israeli military action, but made no mention of the cessation of violence action by Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad or Israeli settlers.

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References

  1. ↑ "Pauline Bryan". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Queen confers Peerages: 18 May 2018". gov.uk . Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  3. ↑ Dan Sabbagh (18 May 2018). "May names nine new Tory peers to boost party after Brexit defeats". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "No. 62334". The London Gazette . 26 June 2018. p. 11316.
  5. ↑ "About - redpaper.net". Red Paper. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  6. ↑ Pauline Bryan (25 September 2017). "You can't be a pessimist and a socialist". Morning Star . Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "'What would Keir Hardie say?' – the new book edited by Pauline Bryan". Keir Hardy Society. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "History of the Campaign for Socialism — Campaign for Socialism". Campaign for Socialism. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  9. ↑ Neame, Katie (19 October 2023). "CLP committee quit en masse over "shut down debate" on Gaza". LabourList | Latest UK Labour Party news, analysis and comment. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
  10. ↑ https://news.stv.tv/politics/nine-scottish-labour-glasgow-officials-quit-over-stifling-of-israel-palestine-debate
  11. ↑ https://news.stv.tv/politics/nine-scottish-labour-glasgow-officials-quit-over-stifling-of-israel-palestine-debate
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