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Neil Findlay
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK
Voices of Scotland  / 7 January 2025
7 January 2025
It’s easy to lose your sense of optimism amid bleak political times. NEIL FINDLAY has some suggestions for what we need to see in 2025
Aslef flag
Features / 21 November 2024
21 November 2024
NEIL FINDLAY slams the shocking lack of facilities and breaks forcing drivers to risk health and endure degrading conditions following a new report from train drivers’ union Aslef
City of Glasgow College
Voices of Scotland / 18 June 2024
18 June 2024
The city of Jimmy Reid, Mary McArthur and other great class fighters must not be left without trade union learning provision, says NEIL FINDLAY
First Minister Humza Yousaf speaks to the media after First
Voices of Scotland / 1 May 2023
1 May 2023
Scottish Labour not only needs to develop policies on the big questions facing Scottish workers – it also needs a credible position on the constitution, argues NEIL FINDLAY
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaking during a press confe
Features / 19 February 2023
19 February 2023
The First Minister was undoubtedly a skilled politician, but her record is one of dismal failure, from public service cuts to flogging off our wind energy market to foreign multinationals, writes NEIL FINDLAY
Unity Consulting: a year of supporting the movement
Voices of Scotland / 18 October 2022
18 October 2022
As the class struggle continues to ramp up, the effective campaigning and research methods of unions and activist groups becomes more and more crucial — we are proud to have played our part, writes NEIL FINDLAY
Housing
Voices of Scotland / 11 April 2022
11 April 2022
Millions of young people want to leave their parental home and stand on their own two feet, but are unable to do so due to a supercharged housing market and no access to social housing. NEIL FINDLAY calls for action to fix a broken system
Food
Features / 13 December 2021
13 December 2021
It’s a disgrace that so many live with food insecurity in one of the world’s richest countries, where modern food production methods should make hunger obsolete. It’s time to do something about it, writes NEIL FINDLAY
Participants at the Indyref 2020 rally, hosted by the Nation
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 13 September 2021
13 September 2021
NEIL FINDLAY puts the arguments for a third option on Scotland’s future
Neil Findlay
Features / 7 May 2021
7 May 2021
by Neil Findlay, outgoing Labour MSP
injecting
Features / 17 December 2020
17 December 2020
State intervention has been too little, too late, as a drugs epidemic decimates working-class communities across Scotland, writes NEIL FINDLAY
James Kelly Leonard coup
Features / 4 September 2020
4 September 2020
In a self-serving struggle to protect their positions, rightwingers have tied up the party with an internecine internal battle rather than fighting the Tories and SNP, reports NEIL FINDLAY
Scotland Nurses
Features / 27 May 2020
27 May 2020
The Scottish government has been costing the taxpayer millions of pounds while misleading families about the reason their loved ones were stuck in hospital, writes NEIL FINDLAY MSP
NHS Louisa Jordan
Features / 24 April 2020
24 April 2020
The Covid-19 crisis has allowed us to see the world in new ways and demand a break with laissez-faire capitalism — but will we? asks NEIL FINDLAY MSP
Scottish Flag
Features / 9 April 2020
9 April 2020
Everyone is rightly proud of the region or nation they are from — they deserve real tools to be able to improve it, argues NEIL FINDLAY MSP
Union flag
Features / 9 January 2020
9 January 2020
NEIL FINDLAY isn't sure Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long Bailey should have invoked 'progressive patriotism'
Jeremy on the Gen Elec Campaign November 2019
Features / 13 November 2019
13 November 2019
The Brexit Party betrayal and the limp Lib Dem launch played out over the rolling crisis that is the Tory election campaign: NEIL FINDLAY MSP looks back at the week that was
Jeremy Corbyn
Features / 31 October 2019
31 October 2019
NEIL FINDLAY MSP says the view from Scotland means only one thing: campaign now for Labour, or accept social carnage
EU Boris Johnson
Features / 24 October 2019
24 October 2019
While the Brexit debates are important, they’re in danger of eclipsing news of major social economic and political events occurring all across the globe, says NEIL FINDLAY
John McDonnell's radical plans
Features / 26 September 2019
26 September 2019
The shadow chancellor has unveiled green socialist policies that will transform Britain entirely, writes NEIL FINDLAY MSP
Mental health
Voices of Scotland: / 12 September 2019
12 September 2019
Psychological and medical care for those who need it is in turmoil – we have seen the solution, but not the resolve to take it, writes NEIL FINDLAY MSP
surgery
Features / 14 August 2019
14 August 2019
Million pound law suits are underway after the lives of tens of thousands of women were destroyed by a medically unsafe implant, writes NEIL FINDLAY
Rally Roon
Features / 31 July 2019
31 July 2019
The SNP’s attitude to the closure of a 163-year-old train works does not bode well for its version of an independent Scotland, writes NEIL FINDLAY
help
Features / 16 July 2019
16 July 2019
NEIL FINDLAY MSP is dismayed by the SNP attitude to the drugs crisis: like Portugal, Scotland needs to decriminalise drugs
Trump and Farage in a Teacup
Features / 1 July 2019
1 July 2019
In the face of climate change and an international drift towards fascism, the centre and the right are descending into farce, writes NEIL FINDLAY
Rosa Gatta and daughter Millie Sordillo has a picture taken
Features / 16 April 2019
16 April 2019
Scotland needs a government that will work with the trade union movement for change, not simply blaming Westminster for problems we have the powers to solve, argues NEIL FINDLAY
Theresa May
Voices of Scotland: / 17 December 2018
17 December 2018
Nobody wants Juncker's package and a better Brexit deal will never be offered to May. Only Corbyn's Labour can save the situation in the interests of the people, not the banks, writes NEIL FINDLAY MSP
We now know that 18 undercover police offi cers posed as pro
Features / 23 November 2018
23 November 2018
The SNP has refused to listen to calls for an inquiry into political policing, says NEIL FINDLAY
JC and RL
Features / 9 March 2018
9 March 2018
Labour’s manifesto has captured the imagination with a positive vision for the future, writes NEIL FINDLAY
VOICES OF SCOTLAND / 16 October 2017
16 October 2017
The socialist message has shown to be popular north of the border – but the Scottish party faces a crossroads in its new choice of leader, says NEIL FINDLAY