Tribune Magazine: Anti-Capitalist Feminism with Selma James
At 95, Selma James is a voice from another world. Born to working-class Jewish parents in Brooklyn, she married the Caribbean revolutionary CLR James and shared his anti-colonial, libertarian Marxism. She was a founder of the Wages for Housework campaign in the 1970s, and remains active with Global Women’s Strike, the Crossroads Women’s Centre in…
Read MoreStatement on loss of Rev. Annie Chambers
We are devastated that our dear sister, welfare rights and civil rights icon, Baltimore-based Rev. Annie Chambers, passed away on July 2, 2026.
Read More‘HOUSEWIVES as NATION-BUILDERS’
Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books Dr. Amina Hussain July 10, 2026 An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent…
Read MoreSIGN Roadmap to Eliminate Poverty – includes UNIVERSAL CARE INCOME
Dear sisters and friends, For the past year we, and many others, have been working with the UN Rapporteur on Poverty and Human Rights on the Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth. As you know we have been campaigning for over 50 years for wages for housework, reformulated as a care income. The proposals in the…
Read MoreNew Book published on India’s Wages for Housework campaign
Please see new book by Prabha Kotiswaran – Wages for Housework: India’s Experiment with Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women. Available Open Access from Oxford University Press. The link for download is at https://academic.oup.com/book/62989 Part I sets out the normative case for unconditional cash transfers to women by engaging with debates in feminist economics, feminist theories of the welfare…
Read MoreA proposal for the Special UN Rapporteur on poverty – A care income for all caring work for people and planet
A PROPOSAL FOR THE SPECIAL UN RAPPORTEUR ON POVERTYrelating to all five areas but most especially to social protections, labour andthe care economy, the climate and global solidarity – 30 March 2025 (updated April 26) https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2025/call-submissions-roadmap-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth A care income for all caring work for people and planet 1. Increased recognition for caring work In…
Read MoreSat 28 Mar – Join the TOGETHER March against the fascists
Dear friends We’ll be going on the “TOGETHER MARCH” this coming Saturday, joining the Palestine bloc from 12noon on Exhibition Rd (Hyde Park end). Look out for the Global Women’s Strike and Women of Colour GWS banners. We’re joining thousands of people outraged by Reform, Tommy Robinson’s followers, pro-genocide Zionists, Trump’s war mongers, and others…
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Read MoreMaggie Ronayne, GWS Ireland at International Women’s Day march, Belfast in the North of Ireland
Maggie Ronayne from the Global Women’s Strike in Ireland speaking out against war, genocide and military spending and for a care income at the IWD march and rally, Belfast in the North of Ireland on 7th March 2026.
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