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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.

US: Ask your Representative to cosponsor Worker Relief & Credit Reform Act

By Global Women's Strike | 8th March 2023

Exciting news – Rep Gwen Moore will be reintroducing the Worker Relief and Credit Reform (WRCR) Act this Thursday, March 9. Please ask your Representative to sign-on to the WRCR Act right away as an original co-sponsor. You can send a model letter directly to your reps at this link.The WRCR Act modernizes the Earned…

End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing online event

By Global Women's Strike | 8th March 2023

The California Poor People’s Campaign and women’s organizations who are national partners of the Poor People’s Campaign including the Global Women’s Strike are hosting a nationwide online event for International Women’s Day, End Women’s Poverty – Invest in Caring Not Killing, to recognize the struggles and contributions of women to the economy, communities and movements for justice – and to demand cash and resources go to end women’s poverty, not war.

Join us at these events today for International Women’s Day 2023

By Global Women's Strike | 8th March 2023

Tell Congress to Support Regenerative Agriculture! Farmers rally in DC March 6-8

By Global Women's Strike | 5th March 2023

Please join us in signing the petition linked below and in other ways supporting this important initiative by Farmers for Climate Action and Regenerate America. The Global Women’s Strike and Payday will be joining the DC rally under the banner of “A Guaranteed Care Income for People and Planet”.  The rally and march are on…

An open letter from the mothers of the Russian Federation

By Global Women's Strike | 2nd March 2023

An open letter from the mothers of the Russian Federation Please read this important anti-war letter from Russian mothers. The letter was issued on Mothers’ Day, November 2022, but it only recently came into our hands. We don’t know the risk the mothers had to take to write and circulate this letter, but they took…

8 March: Andhra Pradesh Natural Farming comes to Kentish Town!

By Global Women's Strike | 24th February 2023

A Global Women’s Strike event for International Women’s Day 2023 Andhra Pradesh Natural Farming comes to Kentish Town! Wednesday 8 March, 5-7pm Kentish Town Library, 262-266 Kentish Town Road,London NW5 2AA     ALL WELCOME   SOLVEIG FRANCIS, based at Crossroads Women’s Centre, will report on her recent visit to the growing women-led farmers’ movement in Andhra Pradesh…

Alabama: Power to prisoners & supporters on both sides of the wall

By Global Women's Strike | 8th February 2023

Dear friends,  We wanted you to see our letter of support (below) sent by Payday and other organizations in the Global Women’s Strike network to the prisoners’ movement against slavery and cruel and unusual punishment in the US state of Alabama.  The Alabama prisoners’ strike lasted almost a month last fall despite constant harassment and retaliation…

Video: GWS speaking to mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar

By Global Women's Strike | 1st February 2023

Join us to mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar

By Global Women's Strike | 31st January 2023

To mark the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, GWS and No Sweat as part of the Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion campaign we co-ordinate, are joining the demonstration in London on Wednesday 1 February against the killings, rape and torture committed by the military since the coup. Myanmar Military: Never in Fashion…

Peru: joint statement against the coup

By Global Women's Strike | 23rd January 2023

Joint statement issued on 30 December 2022 by grassroots organizations and trade unions in Peru, including Huelga Mundial de Mujeres/Global Women’s Strike, condemning the coup and the horrendous repression against protestors. The government declared a state of emergency and suspended all rights and guarantees, allowing the police and military to kill with impunity. The resistance…