Posts by Global Women's Strike

Click below to see Selma’s answer included in the Tribune’s column ‘How can the left defeat right-wing populism?’ (PDF) tribunedec16inclselma

If Chelsea’s sentence stands, she won’t be out until 2045. We cannot allow this. We have to get her out Trans woman whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s supporters from LGBTQ, women’s, anti-war, anti-racist, anti-zionist, whistleblowers’ and other movements for change celebrated her 28th birthday at 16 locations in seven countries (that we know of), calling for her release. Chelsea…

Women for Corbyn celebrating Jeremy Corbyn’s victory at The World Transformed, Black E, Liverpool, Sat 24 Sept [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-FOVOICOg?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent]

Just back from Momentum’s The World Transformed. Very exciting being there with hundreds in the hall at Black-E when the result of the leadership election was shown live on a big screen. There was an elated and triumphant roar from the crowd as Jeremy’s 62% landslide with an increased majority was announced. And this despite…

Six female activists, including Selma James, look at the shadow chancellor’s long track record of fighting for, and listening to, women. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/09/john-mcdonnell-better-gender-equality-campaigner-his-mp-critics

Women with Corbyn Colleagues Claire (left) and Sara (centre) at Corbyn rally in Highbury Fields, North London, 14 August. Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike has been circulating an important statement: Why people of colour should support the new Corbyn/McDonnell movement We are a network of women of colour and, although our organisation is non-party political, we…

Universal family allowance, now known as child benefit and no longer universal, was paid for the first time 70 years ago today. It was primarily the work of Eleanor Rathbone. See my article in the Guardian celebrating the 70th anniversary of Child Benefit.

A new movement announced itself in September 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party by a landslide. Since then, almost every established media has been busy witch-hunting, undermining and insulting that movement by targeting Corbyn and John McDonnell his shadow chancellor. These two MPs have been working together for decades, representing…

When Jeremy Corbyn announced that he was anti-austerity, overnight he began to attract thousands who then joined Labour to vote for him as leader of the party. Some who had left in disgust at Blair’s deadly wars rejoined. Membership doubled, becoming a political force. This was entirely unexpected, like an earthquake. It upset the whole…