Kate Hudson (activist)
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Katharine Jane Hudson is a UK
academic and political activist.
Kate Hudson is currently the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
. Prior to her appointment to the post, she had served as Chair of the organisation from 2003 to 2010. She was also Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University
from September 2003 to 2010 and is now a Visiting Research Fellow. She was founding editor of the journal Contemporary Politics, serves on the editorial board of Debatte: the journal of contemporary central and eastern Europe and is a member of the Board of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust. Hudson is also a member of the Communist Party of Britain
. In the 1990s, she met and married Redmond O'Neill
, an activist in Socialist Action
and adviser to Ken Livingstone
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
academic and political activist.
Kate Hudson is currently the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an anti-nuclear organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
. Prior to her appointment to the post, she had served as Chair of the organisation from 2003 to 2010. She was also Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University
London South Bank University
London South Bank University is a university in south London. With over 25,000 students and 1,700 staff, it is based in the London Borough of Southwark, near the South Bank of the River Thames, from which it takes its name...
from September 2003 to 2010 and is now a Visiting Research Fellow. She was founding editor of the journal Contemporary Politics, serves on the editorial board of Debatte: the journal of contemporary central and eastern Europe and is a member of the Board of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust. Hudson is also a member of the Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Britain
The Communist Party of Britain is a communist political party in Great Britain. Although founded in 1988 it traces its origins back to 1920 and the Communist Party of Great Britain, and claims the legacy of that party and its most influential members Harry Pollitt and John Gollan as its...
. In the 1990s, she met and married Redmond O'Neill
Redmond O'Neill
Redmond O'Neill was a British political activist.Born in London to a family from Tipperary, O'Neill studied at Sussex University, where he joined the Trotskyist International Marxist Group . One faction in the IMG later became Socialist Action, and O'Neill was recognised as its leader...
, an activist in Socialist Action
Socialist Action (UK)
Socialist Action is a small Trotskyist group in the United Kingdom. From the mid-1980s Socialist Action became an entryist organisation, attempting to take over other organisations, with members using code names and not revealing their affiliation....
and adviser to Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone is an English politician who is currently a member of the centrist to centre-left Labour Party...
.
Select bibliography
- CND - Now More Than Ever: The Story of a Peace Movement, Vision Paperbacks, ISBN 1-904132-69-3 (2005)
- Breaking the South Slav Dream: The Rise and Fall of YugoslaviaYugoslaviaYugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
, Pluto Press, ISBN 0-7453-1881-9, (2003) - European Communism Since 1989, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-77342-X, (2000)