Lizzie Woods

Lizzie Woods is a trade unionist born in Wales, living in London. She is the national organiser of the Labour Representation Committee, declaring at the 2011 conference 'we must organise within and without of the Labour Party. Too many good people have fallen by the wayside. There is much more that unites us than will ever divide us'. She is also an organiser and negotiator for the Public and Commercial Services Union and led a high profile campaign for cleaners Buckingham Palace where she won them a 16% pay rise. She is a graduate of the TUC Organising Academy

Woods became active in politics at a young age, living in Underground Madrid during the Franco period as a baby, then her parents moved to Gwaun Cae Gurwen, her maternal village, a mining community. woods attended early morning picket lines as a child against the pit closures. In 1987, Woods led a nationwide school students strike against student loans, and was dubbed 'Firebrand Leisa' by the national press. Woods also organised school students and community groups against the poll tax, with a massive delegation of school students from London leading the anti Poll tax march on London. She is a regular contributor to socialist journal Labour Briefing, formerly known as Voice of the Unions. Woods is the daughter of Marxist theorist and author Alan Woods.