Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright (born 1949) is a British socialist and feminist, best known for being editor of "Red Pepper" magazine.

Early life

She went to the independent Mount School on Dalton Terrace (A59) in York. She then studied PPE at St Anne's College, Oxford, graduating in 1970. She gained a BPhil in Sociology from St Antony's College, Oxford in 1973. Until 1979, she was a research fellow at the Department of Sociology at Durham University. From 1979-81, she was a researcher at the Technology Department of the Open University. In 1982, she became Ken Livingstone's Deputy Chief Economic Advisor to the GLC.

Feminist Movement

Wainwright is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Senior (Simon) Research Fellow of the International Labour Studies Centre at University of Manchester being at Manchester since 1988, and the Centre for Global Governance at the London School of Economics.

Formerly on the editorial board of "New Left Review", she is now on the National Council of the Catalyst thinktank, the only such body on the Left in the UK which does not accept corporate sponsorship, a position it is able to maintain thanks to sponsorship from the trade union movement.

Hilary Wainwright's father was the Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, and her brother, Martin, is the Northern Editor of "The Guardian", to which she occasionally contributes.

She married Roy Bhaskar, the British philosopher, in 1971. She received an [http://www.hud.ac.uk/news/hudd-lines/news_stories/07_10_stories/01_honorary_awards_2007_hilarywainwright.html Honorary] DLitt from the University of Huddersfield on November 28 2007, with her brother Martin, for 'services' to journalism.

Select bibliography

* "Beyond the Fragments" (1979) (co-authored with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal)
* "Labour, A Tale of Two Parties" (1986)
* "Arguments for a New Left"
* "Reclaim the State"

External links

* [http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk//news/02110101.html Hilary Wainwright's papers at the Labour History Archive and Study Centre]
* [http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?&text10=fellows_wainwright&menu=13b Transnational Institute Fellows page]
* [http://www.redpepper.org.uk Red Pepper magazine]
* [http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=archives_wainwright_revolution Interview with Wainwright]