Career
She served as Chair of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 2003 to 2010. She has been an officer of the Stop the War Coalition since 2002. She was Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University from September 2003 to 2010 and is now a Visiting Research Fellow.
Hudson was selected as the Respect candidate for the 2012 Manchester Central by-election, but subsequently stood down in protest at "unacceptable and un-retracted statements about the nature of rape" made by the party"s only Member of Parliament, George Galloway.
The following March, she joined film director Ken Loach and Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in a call for a new left-wing party. Hudson has written that over 2,000 gave their support to the campaign within three days of its launch.
The campaign founded the Left Unity party in November 2013, and Hudson was elected National Secretary of the organisation at its first policy conference on 29 March 2014. In 2012, Hudson married Andrew Burgin, an officer of the Stop the War Coalition and secretary of the national anti-cuts organisation, the Coalition of Resistance.
Hudson is also active in the People"s Assembly Against Austerity and the Greece Solidarity Campaign.