Statement from a Yellow Vests group in France
As you know there has been widespread street protests all over France in the last few weeks. It started against an increase in the tax on petrol while the rich had had a tax cut. The protests have grown and broadened their demands, and many sectors including students, ambulance workers, campaigners against police murders and…
Read More11 Dec: Protecting Breastfeeding from state intervention
From Legal Action for Women: Dear Friends, Protecting breastfeeding from State intervention (family courts, detention centres, hospitals, prisons, etc.) We thought you would like to know about an important meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infant Feeding & Inequalities on Tuesday 11 December 2018. See agenda here. Solveig Francis and Shoda Rackal from…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Strike 2019 – “Stop the world and change it”
Launch of Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket
Selma James in Il Manifesto: «Per affermare il valore della cura, sciopero globale»
INTERNAZIONALE Intervista. La cura è un’attività umanizzante, si diventa un essere umano completo quando si rende l’altro centrale nel proprio operato, oggi gli uomini stanno imparando Selma James Selma James, classe 1930, è un’autrice e attivista statunitense, da molti anni residente a Londra. Ha scritto insieme a Maria Rosa Dalla Costa «Potere femminile e sovversione…
Read MoreCardiff People’s Assembly hosting an event with Selma James, “Women Race and Class: Uniting Our Struggles”.
Selma James – on struggles of women 21 Nov 2017 /Oindrila Gupta On 30th November, Cardiff People’s Assembly is hosting an event with Selma James, “Women Race and Class: Uniting Our Struggles”. men and women on a protest against austerity (picture credit: Cardiff People’s Assembly) Selma James, celebrated author and the founder of the international Wages for Housework…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Strike planning meeting Tues 20 Nov, 6pm
Come to a planning meeting for the International Women’s Strike (IWS: 8 March 2019) 6pm, Tuesday 20 November 2018 Liz Hilton (EMPOWER-Thailand) is in London for a few days. So we are meeting now to benefit from Thai women’s struggle and especially their mass movement of sex workers. Also, Liz, Selma James and Nina Lopez (Global…
Read More“Universal Credit – a hostile environment for women”. Article in Morning Star.
SELMA JAMES AND SOLVEIG FRANCIS | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018 Women are more likely to be single parents and carers, which is why the attacks on welfare under the universal credit policy have been an act of political misogyny, writes SELMA JAMES and SOLVEIG FRANCIS THE FURY against universal credit (UC), imposing destitution and even…
Read More£1 trillion worth of unpaid housework, figures show
The article by Lindsey German of Counterfire with its juicy quote about “unpaid work” was passed on to me, and I was delighted to receive it. [It said:] “The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has estimated that the amount of unpaid household work carried out in the UK is worth £1.24 trillion a year. The value has…
Read MoreMedia: Invisibility would undermine carers’ struggle for equity
THE IRISH TIMES, Fri, Jul 13, 2018 By Maggie Ronayne Family Carers Ireland estimates there are 200,000 family carers, but the means-tested carer’s allowance is only €214 per week for caring for one person. Abolishing the Constitution’s recognition of caring work done within the family would be a disservice to those doing this work.…
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