Selma James

This complaint was sent to Woman’s Hour on Tuesday 30 May: We were shocked by the arrogant and nasty way in which Emma Barnett interviewed Jeremy Corbyn. The clear purpose of the interview was not to inform the audience but to demean the person that many thousands of people (in the majority women) made leader…

MORNING STAR  6 JUNE 2017 Labour is offering a realistic and hopeful alternative to the Tories’ continuing attacks on us all, especially women, write NINA LOPEZ and SELMA JAMES Labour’s manifesto has permanently changed the political landscape. It offers what we always wanted but were told we couldn’t have — a welfare state funded by…

by Selma James Margaretta D’arcy had never seen the new Centre, on Wolsey Mews, Kentish Town, and so on a trip to London some weeks back, she finally visited. The All African Women’s Group had its bi-weekly meeting the same day, this time it was about 85 women and when appropriate Margaretta was invited to…

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…