Kate Hudson (activist)

This article is about the political activist. For the actress, see Kate Hudson.

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.

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 Yugoslavia, Pluto Press, ISBN 0-7453-1881-9, (2003)
• European Communism Since 1989, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-77342-X, (2000)

External links

• Profile of Kate Hudson in the Guardian
• 'May Day lives! CPUSA hosts May 1 reception' article in People's Weekly World, 5 May 2005

Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by Carol Naughton	Chair of CND 2003–	Succeeded by Dave Webb
Preceded by Gary Lefley	General Secretary of CND 2009–	Succeeded by Incumbent