Sarah Woolley

Sarah Woolley

Tolpuddle Fringe event

Sarah Woolley, Maryam Eslamdoust, Alex Gordon, Gawain Little, Prof. Keith Ewing, John McDonnell, Steve Preddy.

YCL educational, Leeds

May 26, 2024.

With Sarah Woolley and Dave Aldwinkle of ACORN UK.

Cuba Vive, North West Rally

With guest speakers

Her Excellency Ismara Vargas Walter, Cuban ambassador

Kim Johnson, MP for Liverpool Riverside

Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP

Richard Burgon MP

Kevan Nelson, Assistant General Secretary UNISON

Sarah Woolley, General Secretary, BFAWU

Gawain Little, General Secretary, GFTU

Micaela Tracey-Ramos, UNISON executive

Roger McKenzie, International Editor, Morning Star

Phil Liptrot, Thompsons Solicitors

Mark Rowe, FBU National Officer

Francisco Dominguez, National Secretary, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign

Join us during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool for an evening of speakers and films on Cuban internationalism, health and solidarity with Palestine to raise money for the Cuba Vive medical appeal.^[1]

Morning Star conference: Fightback

With Prof. Lydia Hayes, Lord John Hendy KC, Andrew Murray, Sarah Woolley, Jeremy Corbyn, Chris Kitchen, Fiona Edwards, Ian Lavery MP, Ben Chacko, Sevim Dagdelen, Helen O'Connor, Alex Gordon, Pete Lazenby, Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, John Rees, Kate Hudson, Sam Browse, Hugh Lanning, Tom Greenwood, Terry Renshaw, Erkan Ersoy, Matt Willgress, Heather Wood.

Red Festival, 2023

Saturday May 27, 2023 Cambridge Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group will host a people’s festival and the Morning Star, the people’s voice, gets top billing.

The festival is dedicated to the women of Iran and includes a solidarity focus. MC Leo Impett, a local university lecturer and specialist in AI, will introduce speakers Aza Zepehr, representative of the Democratic Women’s Organisations of Iran, and later, Steve Marsling of the London Recruits.

The afternoon kicks off with four sessions on key themes including: “Building unions, protecting employment rights,” “Housing for all,” “The Charter for Women” and “Transport for the people.”

These will be in the form of panel discussions. The union session will feature Sarah Woolley, general secretary of bakers’ and food workers’ union BFAWU, and local postal strike leader Darren Turner.

The housing session is presented by local Acorn activists Lewis Jordan and Renato Frisoni. The women’s charter session will hear from Judith Cazorla of the London Young Communist League and Lorraine Douglas of the steering committee of The People's Assembly.

"Socialism - Unity - Internationalism"

Socialism - Unity - Internationalism: Tribune & Arise eve of May Day Rally

Ian Lavery // Diane Abbott // Richard Burgon // Jess Barnard, Young Labour // Ronan Burtenshaw, Tribune // Kate Hudson, CND // Sarah Woolley, BFAWU // Holly Turner, NHS Workers Say No // Chaired by Daisy Carter, Young Labour.

With international guests including...

Txema Guijarro, Spanish Congress Member & General Secretary of Podemos' Parliamentary Group // Varsha Gandikota, Progressive International // Nathalia Urban, Brasil Wire // Guillaume Long, former Ecuadorian Foreign Minister // Bhaskar Sunkara, Jacobin Magazine.

At this time of deep crises internationally and here in Britain, now is the time to come together in struggle and put forward socialist solutions. Start the May Day weekend with a bang with this joint international online rally on April 30!

Hosted by Arise Festival & Tribune Magazine.^[2]

Latin America Conference 2021

Around 400 activists attended this year’s crucial Latin America Conference at Friends House in London on Saturday after unfortunately having to postpone the event in 2020 due to the on-going pandemic. The conference came at a crucial time for the region with progressive electoral victories in Nicaragua, Venezuela and most recently in Honduras.

Adrian Weir, from Unite the Union, opened the conference by welcoming recent progressive election victories

‘Socialists, trade unionists and progressives around the world have been inspired by left election victories across the continent again in recent years - the so called 'pink tide' is back, and with a vengeance.’

He introduced former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP, Ambassador Rocio Maniero, and Kate Hudson from CND. Spanish MP and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, Enrique Santiago joined the plenary via video message.

“The region has changed, firstly with the arrival of AMLO in Mexico, the construction of progressive governments in Argentina, and Venezuela and Cuba emerging from brutal aggression by the United States”.

General Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union (BAFWU), Sarah Woolley was joined by TUC’s Mariela Kohon, Simon Dubbins, Unite, and Guisell Morales-Echaverry, Nicaraguan Ambassador for the second plenary titled, “Latin American Workers Fighting Back!”

Delegates were also treated to video messages from across Latin America fromManuel Diaz Tapia, Vice President of CUT Chile, Rosana Fernandez, Anti-Racism Committee, CUT Brazil and Julia Cabarcas, President of the Colombian Women’s Association.

Assistant General Secretary of Unite the Union, |Steve Turner (UK) chaired the closing rally and was joined by Cuban Ambassador to the UK, Barbara Montalvo, TUC General Council International spokesperson Kevin Courtney, Young Labour Chair Jess Barnard, General Secretary of Liberation, Roger McKenzie and Jeremy Corbyn.^[3]

"The changing world of work for women"

Sian Elliott, Fran Heathcote, Sarah Woolley, Claudia Webbe.

Bedfordshire Morning Star Readers & Supporters

Members of the Bedfordshire Morning Star Readers & Supporters public Facebook page include Sarah Woolley.

"Food, farming and the future"

"Food, farming and the future" November 18 2021 Marx Memorial Library with Sarah Woolley, Amanda Campbell, Scot Walker, and Chris Kaufman.

"Only when it's safe"

Amanda Martin, Mick Cash, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Kevin Courtney, Mark Serwotka, Sarah Woolley, John McDonnell MP, John Hendy QC, Laura Pidcock.

Post pandemic, a new deal for workers

Post pandemic, a new deal for workers Sat, 24 Apr 2021 - 11:00 to 12:30.

The TUC Midlands and the Morning Star are jointly hosting a conference to explore how we can build a new deal for workers following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sarah Woolley, General Secretary of BFAWU
Laura Pidcock, The People's Assembly
Zarah Sultana MP,
Ben Chacko Editor of the Morning Star
John Hendy QC - Institute of Employment Rights
Ben Selby Vice President Elect & East Midlands Regional Secretary of FBU
Annmarie Kilcline, West Midlands Regional Secretary Unite the Union
Lee Barron, Regional Secretary of the TUC.

"The Future of work Mobilising for a New Deal"

Morning Star.

Labour Party conference fringe 2021, "The Future of work Mobilising for a New Deal".

Chair Bob Oram Morning Star

TUC Fringe 2021

Daniel Kebede, Mick Lynch, John Moloney, Sarah Woolley.

Ian Byrne MP, Laura Smith, Annette Mansell-Green, Sarah Woolley.

Rally: How do we defeat Johnson’s racist offensive?

With: Diane Abbott MP • Gary Younge journalist & campaigner • Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour Leader • Sharon Graham, Unite General Secretary • Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP • Kevin Courtney, NEU Joint General Secretary • Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP • Dawn Butler MP • Mick Whelan ASLEF General Secretary • Sarah Woolley, BFAWU General Secretary • Steve Hedley, RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary • Margaret Greer, Unison Black, Jermain Jackman, Talha Ahmed Muslim Council of Britain, Peter Herbert Society of Black Lawyers.

"Socialism, work, technology and the struggle for jobs"

Communist Review No 99, Spring 2021 "Future of Work: Socialism, work, technology and the struggle for jobs" by Gail Cartmail, Michael Roberts, Leo Impett, Ursula Huws, Andrew Maybury, Roger McKenzie, Tony Burke, Sarah Woolley, Keith Ewing, Andy Bain and the Communist Party Future of Work Group.^[4]

Sisterhood, Socialism & Struggle

The Communist Party of Britain has organised a New Year feminist conference celebrating Sisterhood, Socialism & Struggle in the UK and across the world. This free weekend event on January 16-17 2021, will provide a virtual opportunity for women and men on the left to discuss and debate the importance of women’s liberation for the whole human race.

This event aims to put women’s liberation at the heart of class struggle and explore how we should respond to the intensification of women’s oppression under modern capitalism.

Based upon the three strands of the Charter for Women, which was adopted by the National Assembly of Women in 2020, sessions include Marxist-feminist analysis of women in society, at work, and in the international labour movement. Drawn from across the labour movement our speakers include Mary Davis on the roots of women’s oppression, Pragna Patel on domestic violence, migration and racism, Sarah Woolley on sexual harassment and Kellie O'Dowd on abortion rights.

Sessions include "Women in the workplace": with Denise Christie, Rohan Kon, Helen O'Connor and Sarah Woolley.^[5]

Additional panels will highlight such questions as the feminisation of poverty, unfair job segregation and the erosion of women’s sex-based rights, calling for urgent change to secure equal pay and access to decent childcare.

As internationalists, we recognise that the fight against women’s oppression is worldwide and we are delighted to be joined by communist women leaders from three continents, including Liz Rowley, (Canada), Jenny Schreiner (South Africa), Annie Raja (India) and Socorro Gomes (Brazil).^[6]