LIST OF GRANT RECIPIENTS : 1995 - 2008

2008

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