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Global Women's Strike

Global Women’s Strike is an international multiracial network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work for people and planet - a Care Income. It is co-ordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign and was launched by Selma James in 1972.

Race and Wrongful Convictions in the US, published by the National Registry of Exonerations.

By Global Women's Strike | 4th September 2022

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Nina Lopez, GWS speaking at Myanmar 8888 protest

By Global Women's Strike | 7th August 2022

Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations

By Global Women's Strike | 5th August 2022

Dear sisters and friends, Burma/Myanmar: Urgent Appeal for Donations We are distraught and outraged to hear about the executions of four political prisoners in Myanmar. Their murders add to the over 5,800 women, children and men killed since the military coup in February 2021. These atrocities must spur us all into action. We see the…

GWS speaking at this event today to honour the lives of the four executed Myanmar activists & Myanmar’s spirit of resistance

By Global Women's Strike | 30th July 2022

International Activists to Host an Online Event to Honour the Lives of the 4-Executed Myanmar Activists & Myanmar’s Spirit of Resistance An international group of activists, scholars, musicians and singers have teamed up with Myanmar dissidents to host a 2-hour YouTube LIVE event on Saturday, 30 July, 2022.  FORSEA on July 28, 2022 PRESS RELEASE Outraged by…

PRESS RELEASE: No to executions in Myanmar. Comprehensive economic sanctions now.

By Global Women's Strike | 25th July 2022

PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE…PRESS RELEASE NO TO EXECUTIONS IN MYANMARCOMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS NOW Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion campaign is distraught and outraged to hear about the executions of four political prisoners in Myanmar. Their murders add to the over 5,800 women children and men killed since the military coup In February 2021. These executions make…

Fri 22 & 29 July: Brazil & Venezuela films

By Global Women's Strike | 16th July 2022

Celebrate Wages for Housework’s 50th anniversary with three great films at Crossroads Women’s Centre London!

Event with Myanmar trade union leader

By Global Women's Strike | 14th July 2022

Screening Great Archive Films: Friday 8 July, 6pm at Crossroads Women’s Centre.

By Global Women's Strike | 6th July 2022

Our Time is Coming Now, 1971 : Selma James, a socialist and feminist uses her own experiences working in low paid jobs and being a mother and housewife as a starting point in this investigation into whether women are exploited in all areas of society. All Work and No Pay, 1976 : Made for Open…

Unwaged Caregivers join June 18th Poor People’s Campaign Mass Poor People’s & Low Wage Workers Assembly & Moral March on Washington DC

By Global Women's Strike | 16th June 2022

On June 18th mothers and other unwaged caregivers are joining with other poor, unwaged and low-waged workers and people of conscience to take part in the giant Poor People’s Campaign Mass Assembly in Washington, DC. Women and children make up 70% of impoverished people in the US. Though we are workers putting in long hours…

Selma James has been invited to speak at Refugee Week in Brighton & Hove Library

By Global Women's Strike | 15th June 2022

UK – Rwanda migration plan: What does it mean for the Refugee Convention? About this event: Activists, a thinker, and a newly arrived asylum seeker will address the questions, how does the UK in fact, treat forced migrants? Who really supports them? And what must be done?  The United Kingdom is portrayed as one of…