Nigel Flanagan

Union Organiser, LUFC, Harehills, Leeds, Yorkshireman 🇵🇸🇨🇺🇮🇪

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

It’s my new book.

You can order it online at ⁦@Manifesto_Press⁩

Look at the Indian General Strike, the Orange Telecom workers in Madagascar and the Namibian Transport union

A book for activists ✊🏽✊🏿✊

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Great to join @AndreaEganGS @unisontheunion @RMTunion at the launch of Insource Now.

It’s to end the outsourcing rip off and deliver the biggest ever wave of public sector insourcing.

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

@SamGray69 Exactly what just happened to me. 1444 in the queue gets to my turn and bang! Off the website and told tickets not available. WTF @LUFC

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

Come on, please retweet. This lie has to be countered

[Jørn Simmenæs @JoernSimmenaes]

Unbeaten. Four points. Absolutely okay. But 1. half today could be much better. Next The Seagulls away from home. I will be back in Leeds, together with my group of 32 Danish Leeds fans, vs Palace. Hopefully it will be s Sunday game, not Monday! Let’s see - see you 💛💙 MOT 🇩🇰

[The Farm @TheFarm_]

"People think 'All Together Now' is a football song but really it's not, it's an anti-war song, it's a peace song."

Do you remember when you first heard it?

[UCU @ucu]

Last year, UCU and sister unions won a historic vote at TUC Congress: workers’ money should fund jobs, pay and public services not weapons and war.

This September, we’re going back to build on that victory and demand investment in education, manufacturing and a fairer, greener future.

We need support before Congress begins. Sign and share the petition. 🔗 https://t.co/6S8i7Nny9H

[UNISON North West @UNISONNorthWest]

These staff go above and beyond for the people of Greater Manchester in the most difficult circumstances every day. Striking is a last resort. @NCAlliance_NHS can end this dispute whenever it wants. Our door is open when NCA is ready to do the right thing.

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

My take on the latest trade union membership reports. What can we do?

https://t.co/qWm4i5OAfO

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

https://t.co/liuo34Ljbk

Hope to see you at the Wigan Diggers Festival!

[UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside @unisonyh]

Theatre assistants in Leeds are still fighting for the pay they deserve.

If you can support their campaign in any way, please email the branch 📧 [email protected]

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

Absolutely the right question to ask! @ucu

[Paul Middleton @ProfPMiddleton]

As well as counting the number of front-line academic staff being lost, it would be worth knowing if the number of non-front line academic management positions has declined or bucked the trend. I suspect the latter.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3%.
Zero point three per cent.

The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7%.
Thirty seven point seven per cent.

In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide.

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

Massively important. Ghana should be a place of pilgrimage for all. Well done for highlighting this

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

The International Day for the Remembrance of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition is an opportunity to remember those whose lives were stolen by slavery - and to confront the legacy it left behind.

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

@jonesyd95 It matters whether or not he’s faking it. Like his ‘tool maker’ father it’s all bullshit

[UCU @ucu]

Universities across the UK are calling their mass redundancy programmes ‘voluntary’. In today’s Sunday Times a Senior Lecturer in Humanities completely exposes that lie.

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

Hero

[Adrian Thomas @AdrianThomas90]

La commémoration de l'assassinat du dirigeant du Parti communiste d'Allemagne continue à se tenir chaque année au Ernst-Thälmann-Park, devant l'immense monument en bronze (14 m !) que la RDA lui a dédié à Berlin-Est. Les tentatives de déboulonner cette statue ont toujours échoué.

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

Had a great meeting with Chris, lovely man with amazing knowledge of our movement. Tells some great stories too! If you have storied of Jack Jones please DM me. My biography of Jack is being written now

[Manifesto Press Co-operative @Manifesto_Press]

Comparing notes. Two Manifesto authors meet accompanied by our audio visual team to record a new podcast. 🎙️

Chris (left) has written a book ‘Nobody’s Children’. Here he is being interviewed by Nigel Flanagan for a biography that Nigel is writing about the life and times of the great working-class leader Jack Jones. Nigel is currently in a cycle of interviews with activists who knew Jack or in Chris’s case, actually worked with him.

Watch this space for both books. 🔍

Nobody’s Children will be published this autumn.

[UCU @ucu]

City of Liverpool College has suddenly cancelled all A-level provision for new students withdrawing offers just as many were receiving their GCSE results.

Students and staff have been badly let down.

Colleges need stable funding to protect choice, provision and communities.

https://t.co/Oq2ZGkkFPm

[Nigel Flanagan @NigelUNI]

Solidarity

[Chantelle Lunt @chantelle_lunt]

I’ve been reflecting on anger, including my own.
On where we direct it, what we expect from Black leaders and academics, and why Black excellence so often seems to come with an expectation of perfection.

Black people should be allowed to be brilliant, flawed, complicated and human.

I’m so thankful to the colleagues who have helped me unpick my feelings over the past month, and helped me recognise the ways I had internalised some of those impossible expectations of Black academics and leaders.

We also need to ask harder questions about the institutions that celebrated Black academics in 2020 but failed to protect them when the political climate shifted; about a right-wing media campaigns and how they can be mobilised; and about narratives that tell Black people we don’t belong, whether in our communities or in academia.

There is so much anger and hurt around right now. The question for me is how we turn that strength of feeling into better support, protected boundaries, and genuine care for Black mental health and wellbeing.