Dr Peter Leary
Peter Leary is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow in History at Oxford Brookes University. After completing his PhD at Queen’s University Belfast he was the Canon Murray Fellow in Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London. He is the author of Unapproved routes: histories of the Irish border, 1922–72 (Oxford University Press, 2016), winner of the American Conference for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize and shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize.
Windsor CLP were delighted to have Peter as our guest speaker to talk to us about the history of Ireland in October 2020 via Zoom.
Jeremy Corbyn’s new initiative ‘Project for Peace and Justice launched on Sunday. With luminaries such as Naom Chomski, and Yannis Varoufakis speaking it was attended by 300,000 people, Find out more at https://thecorbynproject.com
Windsor Labour Party has just written to our Windsor MP, Adam Afriyie asking him to back the GMB Stop Fire and Rehire process – this is especially important as it’s actually happening on our doorstep.
Staff at Abri – Radian Homes are being subjected to new working conditions and less pay. Windsor Labour Party contacted the unions and we are glad to say they are now heavily involved in balloting the employees regarding strike action and hopefully will be able to reverse this abhorrent practice.
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Save our socialists is a nationwide campaign ran by and for CLP secretaries (Our own secretary Alison, is one of the organisations’ main activists) who are highlighting the plight of their comrades who have been ‘administratively suspended’.
With backing from John McDonnell, Diane Abbott, and Richard Burgon amongst others, it provided useful advice, solidarity, and a ‘safe place’ for those of our colleagues that have had to experience suspension for no apparent reason.
