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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.

Statement: Lawyers & organisations defend Malaysian lawyer Charles Hector

By Global Women's Strike | 22nd March 2021

Lawyers and organizations from UK and a number of other countries write to Malaysian authorities condemning attempts to discredit and criminalize human rights lawyer Charles Hector. 22 March 2021 Eleven lawyers, including human rights QC Michael Mansfield, over 40 organisations and nearly 70 individuals from six countries, have signed an Open Letter distributed by Legal…

Press round-up: International Women’s Day, 2021

By Global Women's Strike | 13th March 2021

The Senate Just Took a Baby Step Toward the Feminist Goal of a Universal Child Benefit It is extraordinary that those who reproduce the human race are still unsupported and impoverished for this fundamental biological and societal work. Unwaged, in a world dominated by money.  Selma James, founder of the socialist feminist Wages for Housework…

March 18 National Welfare Rights Union Truth Commission – Poverty in All Its Forms is Violence

By Global Women's Strike | 10th March 2021

Register now for the Truth Commission: Poverty in all its forms is violence: Caregivers victimized by poverty speak out! (online). Thursday March 18 from 7-8:30pm (US Eastern Time).   Convened by National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU).  Testifiers include Global Women’s Strike Benefits Working Group members. Registration link:https://actionnetwork.org/events/truth-commission-poverty-in-all-its-forms-is-violence-caregivers-victimized-by-poverty-speak-out

Jacobin: The Senate Just Took a Baby Step Toward the Feminist Goal of a Universal Child Benefit

By Global Women's Strike | 9th March 2021

BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE On International Women’s Day, the good news is that the new COVID-19 relief bill will include a kind-of, sort-of universal child benefit — a policy that feminists have long called for. But the overly complicated, burdensome way the policy is implemented means that on this issue, the Left still has its work…

Event: Selma James speaking “Food Poverty Is A Feminist Issue”

By Global Women's Strike | 8th March 2021

Join us for a rally broadcasting live on our Facebook page with Welsh and international speakers including: SELMA JAMES Founder, International Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. Author, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community & Sex, Race, and Class – the Perspective of Winning. REBECCA BODEN Tampere University, Finland. For over…

Statement: International Women’s Day 2021

By Global Women's Strike | 8th March 2021

Global Women’s Strike & Women of Colour GWS – International Women’s Day 2021 CARING for PEOPLE and PLANET Against POVERTY and DICTATORSHIP Women (and men) in a number of countries are calling for a Care Income Now!, an income for all those – beginning with women, the first carers everywhere, and extending to all genders…

Event: Giacomo D’Alisa on Care Income & Degrowth

By Global Women's Strike | 8th March 2021

Mon, 8 March 2021 16:00 – 17:30 GMT Location: Online Event The Care Income Campaign is an international grassroots network demanding payment for care for others and environmental stewardship About this Event The Care Income Campaign is an international grassroots network demanding payment and recognition of housework, care for others and environmental stewardship. Its history…

Statement: The Community Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Collective in Thailand statement on International Women’s Day

By Global Women's Strike | 7th March 2021

We demand an end to State Violence and for a new government – the government we all deserve. The Community Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) Collective in Thailand statement on  International Women’s Day Over one hundred years ago when women in Russia, and in the US took to the streets, giving birth to International Women’s…

CNJ: We will be honouring mothers, as care-givers, on International Women’s Day

By Global Women's Strike | 4th March 2021

04 March, 2021 • ON March 8 International Women’s Day, despite the pandemic, women are involved in many life-changing struggles around the world. In Haiti, Myanmar and Thailand millions risk their lives protesting the dictatorships. In India millions are protesting laws which would put all farmland in the hands of multinationals, including Monsanto and its…

Event: Selma James speaking at Wages for Housework symposium

By Global Women's Strike | 4th March 2021

Dear friends, Please see below the e-poster for the Symposium “Debates For And Against Wages For Housework”, being held on-line, 4-6 March. Selma will be speaking on Saturday 6 March, 9-11am UK time (14.30-16.30 IST).Registration link is here. Details of the full programme for the three days are in the attached pdf. Please share and…