Kate Hudson (activist)

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Kathryn "Kate" Jane Hudson is a UK political activist and campaigner.

Kate is currently the chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and has been since September 2003. She is also Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University and edits the journal Contemporary Politics. She is also a prominent member of the Communist Party of Britain, stating in May 2005 that: "People said the communist movement was dead. What we see around the world today shows just how wrong they were."[1]

She has written several books including:

• 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)

Preceded by: Carol Naughton

Chair of CND 2003–

Succeeded by: Current

[edit] External links

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