Communication Workers Union × Holly Rigby
Summary
Holly Rigby and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are connected through shared support for left-wing Labour policy and overlapping activist networks. In Source 1, Holly Rigby is quoted as a ‘teacher and campaigner’ commenting on radical Labour policy ideas including abolishing private schools, while the CWU is mentioned in the same article as a backer of the Green New Deal policy. In Source 2, both Holly Rigby (listed as ‘Teacher and Momentum activist’) and Andrew Towers (‘Head of Political Strategy at CWU’) appear as speakers at The World Transformed 2018 festival in Liverpool, though in different sessions. Holly Rigby spoke at ‘From Cradle to Grave: Developing Labour’s National Education Service,’ ‘Feminism for the Many,’ and ‘Making the Case for Political Education,’ while Andrew Towers represented the CWU at ‘Taking What’s Ours: Public Ownership from Below?’ and Dave Ward, General Secretary of the CWU, spoke at ‘The Future of the Trade Unions.’ In Source 3, the CWU is listed as a supporter organisation of The People’s Assembly Against Austerity, and Holly Rigby appears in the attendees list of a People’s Assembly anti-Boris Johnson rally on 21 July 2019.
Provenance
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