Global Women's Strike in India

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Fri 26 Nov: join farmers’ victory celebration outside India High Commission, London

By Global Women's Strike | 22nd November 2021

Power to the Indian farmers protestswho are winning the repeal ofModi’s hated Farm Laws! ਭਾਰਤੀ ਕਿਸਾਨਾਂ ਦੇ ਸੰਘਰਸ਼ ਨੂੰ ਤਾਕਤ ਦਿਓ।ਜੋ ਮੋਦੀ ਦੇ ਨਫ਼ਰਤ ਭਰੇ ਖੇਤੀ ਕਾਨੂੰਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਰੱਦਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਲੜ ਰਹੇ ਹਨ| Friday 26 November 2021,12-2pm High Commission of India, India House, Aldwych, London WC2B 4NA, (closest tube Holborn/Temple) On 19 November, Prime Minster Modi announced he is repealing his hated Farm Laws. Millions are celebrating this historic victory all over India…

27 Sept: Indian Farmers call for Shutdown across India!

By Global Women's Strike | 27th September 2021

Support Indian Farmers/Farm labourers’Bharat Bandh (Shutdown) across All India27 September 2021 Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) coalition of farmers unions has called for a complete shutdown across India (except emergency services) on 27 September against Modi’s three farm laws which will open the floodgates to corporations undermining food security and livelihoods of millions of people, and…

Indian Farmers & Central Trade Unions protest 26 June

By Global Women's Strike | 25th June 2021

Dear Friends, Please see: ·      Mailing below from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research · Shadipur · New Delhi 110008 India.  https://thetricontinental.org/ ·      Press release from the National Platform of Central Trade Unions “The CTUs to observe June 26th across the Nation In solidarity with Samyukta Kisan Morcha as a “Save Agriculture-Save Democracy” Day” ·      Kisan…

India: Farmers to observe ‘Total Revolution Day’ on 5th June

By Global Women's Strike | 2nd June 2021

Please see press statement below from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella body of over 40 farmers’ unions, India.  Farmers and farm labourers, women and men, supported by people all over India, and internationally, are intensifying their campaign, demanding the repeal of Modi’s repressive and hated three Farm Laws. See our supporting statement 26thMay…

Farmers Unions call for protests across all India

By Global Women's Strike | 26th May 2021

Update from Global Women’s Strike (GWS) Women of Colour GWS and Payday men’s network, (which include farmers and farmworkers in different countries). GWS & WOC have been working with grassroots Dalit and Adivasi women in our network in India since 1992.  We have been spreading the word about this momentous strike of millions of farmers…

INDIA: Farmers Unions and Central Unions Joint Statement

By Global Women's Strike | 29th April 2021

Support All India Strike – 26 March

By Global Women's Strike | 26th March 2021

Victory to the famers and all workers! 26 March Bharat Bandh (All India Strike) We are with the millions of brave women, men and children striking nationwide in India tomorrow against unjust farm and labour laws being imposed on people in both the countryside and the cities.  Farmers and farm workers, including mothers, grandmothers and…

“I was at the farmers camps in Delhi’ – a first-hand account by a woman grassroots organiser of women from hundreds of villages who are farm workers and housewives

By Global Women's Strike | 25th March 2021

A member of GWS in India, part of a women’s network of Dalit and Tribal women in rural Chhattisgarh, visited the three farmers’ camps around Delhi’s border: Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri, during the Kisan Andolan strike actions 15-17 March.  Thousands of farmers and farm workers, including women, went to the camps by busses, tractors and…

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: 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…