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4 unusual facts about Lizzie Woods


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Lizzie Woods national organiser of the Labour Representation Committee and leader of the dispute to award cleaners working in royal palaces the London Living Wage

Lizzie Woods

Woods spent her early years in Francisco Franco's Madrid, where her family participated in the struggle against the Franco regime, before moving to the Welsh mining village of her family in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen near Ammanford in Carmarthenshire.

Her family were forced to move to Hackney, London for economic reasons following the Thatcher government's decimation of the mining community.

She became active in politics at a very young age, attending early morning picket lines at her local pit Abernant, during the miners strike.



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