Hilary Wainwright, 1949-
Biographical notes:
Hilary Wainwright, daughter of Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, was born in 1949. Although never a member of the Labour Party, Wainwright has for many years been involved with the extra-parliamentary Left. She worked with the shop stewards collaborating with Tony Benn on alternative industrial policies when he was Industry Minister and also with the Greater London Council's Popular Planning Unit during the Margaret Thatcher years.
Wainwright describes herself as a socialist feminist and a strong believer in popular democracy combined with parliamentary democracy. She was a founding member of Charter 88 and is on the editorial board of the UK political think tank, The Catalyst Trust.
She is currently a Transnational Institute (TNI) Fellow and Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Labour Studies at the University of Manchester. Wainwright is also the editor of Red Pepper an independent magazine of the green and radical left.
From the guide to the The Papers of Hilary Wainwright (1949-), 1960s-1980s, (Labour History Archive and Study Centre)
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