Pauline Bryan, Baroness Bryan of Partick

The Right Honourable The Baroness Bryan of Partick
Bryan in 2019
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2018 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	(1950-01-03) 3 January 1950 (age 75)
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.

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. "Nine Labour officials quit over 'stifling' of Israel-Palestine debate". 19 October 2023.
11. "Nine Labour officials quit over 'stifling' of Israel-Palestine debate". 19 October 2023.

External links

• Pauline Bryan, Baroness Bryan of Partick on Twitter
• Articles authored by Bryan at the Red Paper Collective