LIST
OF GRANT RECIPIENTS : 1995 - 2009
2009
Seeds for Change, Education materials
Working Class Movement Library, Education materials
Dave Chapple, biography of George Massey
Faculty for Israel-Palestine Peace, Conference - Birkbeck College
Banana Link, Conference for young trade unionists
Prof Ray Bush, Series of lecture meetings at Leeds University; 'Taking Soundings'
Ken Sprague Fund, International Political Cartoon Competition
International Friends of the Pamberi Trust, Cultural resources for Pamberi Trust Cultural Centre in Zimbabwe
Soundings, e-book 'After the Crash'
War Resisters' International, Women Conscientious Objectors
Thomas Clarkson Plaque, Bristol
Edinburgh People's Festival, Burns pamphlet
International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, Travel grant
Khoo Ee Hong, Translation of book about migrant workers into English
Mule Newspaper, Manchester
Tolpuddle in Islington, Conference
Women in Black, Conference
2008
Aurora Metro Arts and Media, performance and commemoration of the Actresses' Franchise League
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, publication of report on prison conditions in Turkey
Mike Lewis and Omega Research Foundation, database and research project on private military and security companies in East Africa
Voice in the Wilderness, publication of book on Iraq based activism in the UK
Another Israel, booklet to accompany exhibition display describing the work of alternative organisation in Israel today
Free Gaza, information publicity in the UK about the situation in Gaza
Convention to the Left, participative gathering to coincide with Labour Party conference in Manchester, 20-25 September 08
Corporate Watch, handbook for communication campaigners
Cynthia Cockburn, contribution to book on a comparative study of peace movements
Debatte, joint conference with Hungarian Journal Eszelmet
Rowland Sheret Memorial lecture programme
Tenner Films, documentary, interview with Tony Benn about nuclear policy past and future
Ultimate Holding Company, street lecture series in Manchester
Yorkshire/Palestine Cultural Exchange, series of meetings 08/09
Bhopal Survivors' Movement, Oral testimonies of survivors experiences
Democratic Audit, Power and Participation in Modern Britain
Haringey Solidarity Group, Haringey Independence Day
Paul Kelemen, University of Manchester, contribution to conference in honour of Prof Sheila Rowbotham 'The Public Intellectual and the Left in the 21st Century'
London Socialist Historians Group, conference to celebrate 70th anniversary of the publication of CLR James' Black Jacobins
Social Development Committee of Haifa, oral documentation of experiences of Haifa residents Palestinian residents
Women in Black, contribution to setting up WIB Communications Group
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, travel grant for Nepalese representative to attend UN Commission on the Status of Women
2007
Special Issue of the Salford Star, a free Salford Newspaper, on the theme of the lives of Frederick Engels and Mary Burns
Labour behind the label, contribution towards an international forum on the exploitation of labour in the garment industries
Marx Memorial Library, subsidy to seminar on Christopher Caudwell
Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, seminar for young trade unionists
Stephen Roberts, contribution towards the publication of a biography of Thomas Cooper and Arthur O'Neill, Chartists
Zed Books, contribution towards a UK book tour by Nawal el Sadawi
Neighbourhoods England, a local community association, Bradford, towards a start-up meeting
Amandla, new popular socialist South African monthly
Chris Arthur, travel grant to present a paper at a conference of Theseis
Prof Ray Bush, travel grant for Prof John Lungu to attend conference in Leeds
Corporate Watch, support publication of Corporate Watch Newsletter
Ciara Leeming, report on housing, regeneration and community action
Vasundhara Mohan, Institute of Peace Studies, Mumbai, travel grant to International Women's peace Conference, Dallas
Northwest Labour History Book, award to set up website
Isabelle Fremeaux, Birkbeck, Paths through Utopias, book and DVD
Women in Black, redesign and update of leaflets and placards
Bishopsgate Library, contribution to conference on cooperation in London
Faculty for Israel-Palestine Peace, supply of books and teaching material for Palestinian universities
Dr. Janos Jemnitz, Budapest, subsidy towards publication of a book on Keir Hardie in Hungarian
Ken Sprague Fund, contribution towards international cartoon competition and exhibition
Platform, 'Land and Fire' information campaign on the Baku- Tibilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline
Northern Rally, Palestine cultural event in the North of England
Paul Tyler, subsidy towards the publication of a biography of Labour's Lost Leader; The Life and Politics of Will Crooks 1852-1921 (IB Tauris, London)
Martyn Brown, Travel grant to London to pursue research on New Zealand's involvement in the Greek army's mutiny of 1944
2006
Contribution to the Cost of publication of 'The Land', a journal dealing with rural and urban land issues
UHC Collective, 'Open City Repository' website
Trapese Collective, 'Everyday Revolutions', book subsidy
Sheila Cohen, contribution to the publication of pamphlet 'What's Happening'
Raphael Samuel History Centre, 'People's London', conference
In Tandem Women's Theatre, oral history project
Friends of Workers Education in South Africa,
£900 for shipment of books to libraries
Institute of Race Relations, conference 'Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror' conference 16 Sept 06, grant £1000
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, international conference, Sept 06, 'Women's unfinished agenda', £1000
Labour behind the Label, Wearing Thin - publication costs - £1000
Homeworkers Worldwide; educational fellowship for representative from Bihar grant £970
Derek
Clarke, exhibition commemorating Lancashire involvement
in the Spanish Civil War
Matthew Beaumont, University College London, subsidy towards
the publication of As Radical as Reality Itself; Essays on Marxism
and the Arts
Val Regan, ‘Sing for a Change’ commissioning
songs for our times
Soundings, ‘Thinking Ahead’ conference
June 06
Palestinian Women Speak out, subsidy for travel
grants for Palestinian women
Celia Mather, travel grant to conference ‘Workers’
Education and Workers’ Media in a Global Economy’
Daniel Chavez, follow up grant for setting up website
on the political crisis in Brazil
Manchester Metropolitan University, ‘Women , Work
and Globalisation’ conference to celebrate the work of Angela
Hale, the late director of Homeworkers Worldwide
2005
Ken Sprague Fund; International Cartoon
Competition
Soundings; ‘Thinking ahead’
conference 11 June 2005
Bob Dixon; poetry publication grant
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace;
start up money for setting up the organisation’s UK branch
Migrant Media: Licence to kill, documentary
film project
Hakim Mbazamihigo; University of Leeds;
research project ‘Democracy and Ethnicity in Burundi’
Spinwatch; report on corporate power
Women in Black International Conference:
Jerusalem 12-14 August 2005
Allison Drew, subsidy towards publication of biography
of Sidney Bunting
‘Remember Saro Wiwa’, support for launch of
art competition and public education project
Northern Lights Choir, travel grant to support
Cuba Choir Festival
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation; travel grant for delegate
from Turkey to attend Peace and Human Rights seminar in Brussels
Daniel Chavez, Trans National Institute, start up grant
for website on participatory democracy in Brazil
Socialist Register seminar on ecological challenges facing
the Left
Merlin Press, subsidy towards the publication of
the Ralph Miliband/Marcel Liebman correspondence on the 1967 Middle
East War
2004
Jerusalem Link:bi-national conference
involving Palestinian and Israeli women on the ‘Geneva Accords;
conflict resolution and peace initiatives’
Center for Socialist History, Ca.;
Publicising the electronic editions of the Marx Engels Cyclopaedia
Tadeusz Kowalik; Impact of Third Way
Ideologies on Germany and Poland
Cynthia Cockburn; Research study of
the international Women in Black movement Women opposing War
Stuart Hodkinson; Activists’
Network Directory, online and publication
Rae Street, Ann Scargill and Betty Heathfield;
travel grants to the Mumbai World Social Forum
European Jews for a Just Peace; subsidy
for simultaneous translation for international conference
Dancing for Palestine; contribution
towards a tour of a group from Jabalia refugee camp,Gaza
Wedgwood Memorial College; library
development fund
University of Kent; Marx and Philosophy
inaugural conference
Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom; international seminar at the European Social
Forum, London 2004
Frank Salt; history of the National
League for the Blind
War Resisters International; support
for a conscientious objectors’ campaign in Finland
Mediactive; support for launch of
publication No 3, covering the media portrayal of the Iraq war
Socialist Women of Sri Lanka; essay
collection project
Khanya College, Johannesburg; cataloguing
of social movements library
Soundings; The Future of Public Life,
seminar and discussion
2003
Act Together – Women against Sanctions
and War on Iraq; Our Life in Pieces exhibition- Objects
and stories from Iraqis in Exile
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation:
Cordoba Seminar on Peace and Human Rights
Cynthia Cockburn: Cypriot Women imagining a Future
Cyprus, published in 2004 as The Line:Women, Partitions and the
Gender Order in Cyprus
Asad Rehman, chair of the Newham Monitoring
Project; contribution to travel expenses to Porto Alegre
World Social Forum
John Callaghan and Mark Phythian;
contribution to book: The Labour Party and British Foreign Policy
Marxism and History; conference to
launch John Saville’s political memoirs Memoirs from the Left
(2003)
Chris Arthur; travel grant to present
paper to conference on ‘Marx’s Theory of Money: Modern
Appraisals’
Bat Shalom – Israel Women’s Peace
Group; contribution towards the celebration of Women, Land
and Land Day
FFBIZ (Frauen forschungs,bildungs-und-Informationszentrum
e.V.) Berlin; contribution to international conference
Women Gender World, 20th and 21st centuries
Sheffield Socialist Choir; participation
in choral festival in Cuba
Women’s Budget Group (London);
updating and maintenance of website
Sue Innes; Women’s Movement
in Scotland in the 19th and 20th centuries
Forum for the Study of Crisis in the 21st Century;
seed money for website
Women’s Social and Political Union;
Centenary celebrations, Manchester
Platform; development of new course
curriculum at Birkbeck College entitled The Body Politic
2002
Centre for Democratic Policy Making (CDP);
study of regionalism
Andrew Hemingway, University College London;
‘Marxism and the Visual Arts Now’ conference
Monthly Review Foundation; book, We are the
Poors; Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa,
by Ashwin Desai
Pushpinder Khaneka; subsidy towards
Wellred website
Prof Lou Kushnick,Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Educational
Trust; ‘Towards an effective anti-racist educational
system’ conference
Artery Publications; publication subsidy
for biography of Ken Sprague
Rose Lindsey; ‘Thinking and
Doing’ conference
Fiona Dove, Transnational Institute;
travel grant to 2002 World Social Forum at Porto Alegre
National Alliance of Street Vendors, India;
Streetnet International Launch, South Africa
Mark Wilding; Travel grant to Geneva
to carry out interviews with members of IFWEA and WIEGO at ILO,
for study of Workers’ Organisations in the Informal Economy
Women in Black UK; publication of
pamphlet about the history and activities of the organisation
Alan Campbell and John McIlroy; travel
grant to Moscow to research Comintern archives on 1926 lockout
Allison Drew, University of York;
travel grant to research the life of Sidney Bunting
Sue Bowen; travel grant to Porto Alegre,
World Social Forum
Ralph Darlington; ‘Revolutionary Syndicalism;
an international and comparative analysis’
Prof. Gary Craig; subsidy of catalogue
of the Joe Kenyon archive at Northern College
Michael Davis, University of Queensland;
research on the London Corresponding Society, 1792-9
Manchester International Centre for Labour
Studies, University of Manchester; conference ‘Sources
of Radicalism’
Prof. Michael Newman; cost of photo
reproduction for his book, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the
New Left
David Cromwell, University of Southampton;
contribution towards setting up of website MediaLens www.medialens.org
War Resisters’ International;
‘Recovering WRI’s History – Stories of War Resisters’
International’, oral history project
2001
Lipman-Miliband Trust; ‘Nationalism
and the Left’, international conference, Leeds April 2001
Bat Shalom (Northern Israel branch);
exhibition and Peace Camp of Israeli and Israeli/Palestinian women
Susie Jacobs, Manchester Metropolitan University;
‘Women’s organisations and land reform issues in South
Africa’
Women in Black, UK; subsidy towards
the publication of leaflets for general distribution at weekly vigils
Cynthia Cockburn, City University;
field research work in Cyprus for book Cypriot Women imagining Future
Cyprus, published as The Line in 2004
Raise Your Banners Festival; contribution
towards the 4th International Festival of Song
Working Class Movement Library (founded by
Edmund and Ruth Frow) merged with John Rylands University Library;
contribution to project of cataloguing trade union pamphlets, posters
and periodicals
Andrew Boyd; profile of Jack White
(1879-1946), labour movement activist
O’Connor Lysaght; assistance
with publication of new edition of The Limerick Soviet
Damian White; travel grant to present
papers on environmental issues at the ASA and
archival work at the Centre for Political Ecology, USA
Act Together; conference to publicise
the impact of sanctions in Iraq
Jeremy Lester, Counter- Hegemony, a Journal
of Radical Socialist Culture; Theatre of Living Ideas
TUC Library at University of North London;
catalogue and conservation of the papers of the Women’s Trade
Union League
National Museum of Labour History;
purchase of basic reference material to complete the reference book
holdings
Lusia Films; stills archive and catalogue
of Marc Karlin’s documentary films
Neville Kirk, Manchester Metropolitan University;
travel grant to Australian National
University for research on ‘Workman’s Paradise’
in comparative perspective in
Australia, US and Britain
2000
Gregor Gall, University of Stirling;
research on militancy among postal workers
Ephraim Nimni, (ed) State and Nation;
translation costs of essay by Karl Renner – ‘State and
Nation’
Left Forum 2000; Marxist University
of London, annual conference
Michael Herbert, NorthWest Labour History Group
and Well Red Productions; cultural programme of socialist
and political drama
Stuart Brown, Positive Arts; anti-racist
performance projects training for unemployed young volunteers
Vassilis K. Fouskas, Journal of Southern Europe
and the Balkans; conference
Nick Osmond and Peter Richars; subsidy
for publication of Thirty-three Years in the Trenches by Peter Richards
Jill Liddington; Calderdale Labour
Women’s Council Centenary Exhibition
Tadeusz Kowalik, Institute of Economis, Polish
Academy of Sciences; Critique of Third Way in comparative
perspective
1999
Alternative
Public Policies for Social Justice Prize:
Melissa Benn; ‘Anatomy of an
an ambiguous politics’, Political Quarterly, July 2000
Robin Blackburn; Banking on Death
or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions
Joan Smith and John Pierson, Staffordshire
University; Democratic Citizenship and an Alternative Perspective
on the Regeneration of Communities in the UK
Christabel
Gurney; British Trade Unions and the anti-Apartheid Movement,
1969-1982
Edward Garrett, University of Brighton;
‘The Liberal Order: the Future for Social Justice’ at
Olomouc, Czech Republic
John Nicholson, Greater Manchester Socialist
Alliance; Campaigns 99 Conference
David O’Brien, University of Newcastle;
‘Concepts of Citizenship in the New Labour Party: Ethical
Socialism and New Labour’, travel grant for archival work
En-gender, Edinburgh; update information
pack on ‘Women and the Scottish Parliament’
Norma Copa Schenke, University of Westminster;
installation on Argentinian atrocities in the 1970s ‘Memory
of the Disappeared’
Richard Kuper, Workers’ Library and Museum,
Johannesburg; book transportation from the UK
Frontline Books, Manchester; publicity
leaflets advertising move to new premises
Red Pepper; costs of seminar on the
themes of alternative left politics
Women Working Worldwide; subsidy for
volunteers’ tuition in English language proficiency
Monthly Review, New York; subscription
drive in the UK
John Nicholson; contribution to Conference,
‘Ireland beyond the Sectarian Divide’
Jane Tate, HomeNet International, Leeds;
accessible study materials for home based workers
Gail Malmgreen, Robert F.Wagner Labor Archives,
Tamiment Institute Library, New York; travel grant to the
UK for presentation of video ‘They were not silent: the Jewish
Labor Movement and the Holocaust’
Sheila Cohen, Detroit USA; book research
From the Ground UP; Decline and Resurgence in the Unions, 1970-2000
Dexter Whitfield, Centre for Public Sevices,
Sheffield; seminar on Socialist Public Management
Sheila Rowbotham, Images of Labour;
cinematic representation of class
Mrs Margaret Simey, University of Liverpool;
biography of George D’Aeth, first member of staff in the department
of social science at the University of Liverpool
Jack Grassby, The Failed Revolution;
a history of militant trade unionism in South Tyneside
Allison Drew, University of York;
Discordant Comrades: Identities and Loyalties on the South African
Left
Nigel Wright, Sheffield; Publicity
for ‘Raise your Banners’ festival of political song
Annie Nelligan, Making Connections;
Irish Peace Process tour of Yorkshire
Andrew Boyd; Fermenting Elements:
Labour Colleges in Ireland 1924-1964, publication grant
Janos Jemnitz, Budapest; conference
subsidy
1998
John Poole, The Dodford Society, Bromsgrove;
Celebration of Dodford Chartist Movement
Sheila Rowbotham, 150th Anniversary of The
Communist Manifesto; a celebration
Colin Leys, University of York, Toronto;
Market Driven Politics
David Howell and Kenneth O.Morgan (eds);
Crime, Protest and Police in Modern British Society; essays in memory
of David J.V.Jones
Alan Campbell, University of Liverpool and
John McIlroy, University of Manchester; ‘Communist
Party in Industry; interviews and transcriptions’
Lorraine Sitzia; A Life of Arthur Thickett;
an oral history’
Sheffield Socialist Choir; Tenth Anniversary
Songbook
Banner Theatre; ‘Fifty Years
of People’s Health – Celebrating the NHS’
Stella Stanford, Radical Philosophy;
‘Philosophy and Race’ conference
Historical Materialism; subsidy towards
new bi-annual
Eric Taplin; North-West Labour History
Group
Steve Jefferys, University of Keele; ‘Radical
Trade Unionism’ conference
Alan Fowler, Manchester Metropolitan University;
research into International Textile Workers Federation (Brussels)
Irish in Britain Representation Group;
conference on United Irishmen’s Rising of 1798
Trade Union Forum; publication grant
Medica, Sarajevo; research travel
grant for Cynthia Cockburn
1997
Dr K Lunn; conference grant
David Cope; Bibliography of the CPGB
Anthony Carew; ‘TUC International
Policy 1945-75’
Kevin MacDermott; Russian Language
edition of The Comintern; a history of international Communism from
Lenin to Stalin
Milos Nikolic; grant for continuation
of newsletter Transitions to Democracy
Bryan D. Palmer; Soldier of the Revolution:James
P. Cannon
Max Silverman, University of Leeds;
‘Anti-Arab and anti-Jewish Racialised Discourses in Britain
and France’
Dr Maloka, South Africa; travel grant
to attend ‘Classifying Race, Racialising Class’ conference,
Oxford
Society for Cooperation in Russian and Soviet
Studies; assistance towards costs of storage and preservation
of the society’s archives and photolibrary
Ralph Darlington; publication costs
of autobiography of Molly Murphy
HC Lowe; subsidy towards publicity
for his autobiography Anchorman
European Marches against unemployment;
publication grant
Mike Waite; research on anarchist
movement in NW England in the 1970s, published in Anarchist Studies,
vol. 10 (1), Spring 2002
Prof A Mitzman, Amsterdam; ‘European
Left Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism’, seminar/conference
Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans
WEA, South Yorkshire; publication
of adult education material
Hywel Francis, University of Cardiff, Wales;
research project on adult education, social exclusions and active
citizenship
Mair Francis; research women in the
mining regions of Sardinia
George Barnsby; publication costs
of book on history of socialism in Birmingham and the Black Country
Women working Worldwide; production
and distribution of newsletter World Trade and the Rights of Women
Workers
Terence Bowman; publication of biography
of his great-grandfather, Alexander Bowman, 1854-1924, co-founder
of Belfast Trades Council and President of Irish TUC in 1901
Imprints; journal, subsidy towards
publication costs
Owen R. Ashton; publication Chartist
Studies
Woodcraft Folk; Oral History and Archive
project
Diane Kirby; research grant
John Saville Award:
Dr Janaki Nair, Madras Institute for Development
Studies; video film After the Gold, a history of the decline
of gold mining community in South India
1996
Claire Eustance; subsidy towards the
publication of photos in a book of essays on gender and women’s
suffrage
Marvin Gettleman, New York; travel
grant for participant from India to attend an international conference
on Left education, Montreal
Trevor Fisher; interviews with communist
party members who left the party in 1956
Kerrie Ryan; research costs for biography
of Lord Scanlon
Brian Pearce; study of Russian revolutionary
history
Imprints, journal; grant for publication
costs
‘Left Forum 1996’; grant
for publicity costs
Merseyside Port Shop Stewards committee;
video of the Liverpool Dock Strike
Rodney Mace and John Gorman; book
on the history of the British Trade Union Posters
Malcom Chase, University of Leeds;
travel grant to the USA to attend labour history conference
Manchester conference to honour the work of
John Saville; travel grant to foreign speakers
Socialist Movement; seed money for
publication of bulletin
Workers’ Library Resource Centre and
Museum, Manchester; library grant
Prof Nira Yuval Davies, University of Greenwich;
conference grant
European Forum of Left Feminists;
conference grant |
