Liz Ross is a long-term Socialist activist and author based in Melbourne, Australia. She has campaigned for Women's Rights and Gay Liberation since 1972 and was a union delegate in the Department of Social Security for ten years during the Hawke era.[1] Notably, she has contributed detailed accounts of industrial struggle in Australia, with militant workers in the both defunct Builders Labourers Federation[2] and the Royal Australian Nurses’ Federation.[3] She is also a member of the Trotskyist organisation Socialist Alternative and a representative of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.[4]
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In 2004, Ross wrote Dare to struggle, dare to win! Builders Labourers fight deregistration, 1981-94 published by Vulgar Press, which outlined the history of the militant Builders Labourers Federation. David Renton of Labour History called the book "a wonderfully partisan account that takes seriously the challenge of understanding the past through the eyes of the people who realised that strong trade unions of unskilled workers are a rare and precious thing, the men and (very often) women who fought against the bosses and the courts."[5]