Global Women's Strike UK
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 launched by Selma James in 1972.
Women of Colour to the Chakrabati Inquiry on Racism in the UK
We thought you might be interested in our statement which has been submitted to the Chakrabarti Inquiry“into antisemitism and other forms of racism including islamophobia, within the Labour party”. We would be glad for any feedback. We are also circulating the highly recommended submission from International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network UK, titled “An anti-racist movement versus…
‘Evidence Against the Witch-Hunt, and the Racism that is Hidden by it’
“we do not believe that Labour is rife with antisemitism and weare outraged that antisemitism is being used to undermine the new anti-austerity,anti-racist and anti-imperialist Labour leadership. Below is evidence against thewitch-hunt, and of the racism in the UK which is hidden by it.” This is the submission from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)…
Security Forces and Corbyn: Guardian Letter
The following is a letter written to the Guardian, in response to an interview with Unite leader, Len McCluskey: Len McCluskey says that the security forces are “involved in dark practices” to discredit Jeremy Corbyn (Len McCluskey: intelligence services using ‘dark practices’ against Corbyn, 23 July, andhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/25/len-mccluskey-adds-context-to-his-comments-on-mi5). McCluskey has been in politics long enough to…
Bernie’s Movement – Global Women’s Strike in NYT
On Tuesday, Ms. Grover invited me to a women’s speak-out event at a church downtown that was organized by the social justice group Global Women’s Strike. The event’s attendees skewed older and much more local than the protest on Monday did. Here were people invested in the unglamorous work of coalition building — activists on…
Resistance to USA’s Drone Assassination Programme
On 19 January, anti-drone grandmother Mary Anne Grady Flores was convicted to 6 months in jail. Her conviction sprang from her protest at Hancock Air National Guard Base (New York state) in 2013. Earlier this year, former drone operators blew the whistle on the US drone programme and wrote a collective letter to President Obama.…
Work of Carers Sorely Needed
An article on the struggle to care in the face of austerity, written by Becka Seglow Hudson of the Global Women’s Strike was responded to last week in a letter, penned by care assistant in an elderly people’s home, Kate Thompson. ”I see examples of excellent care, small acts of kindness, compassionate treatment of those we…
Women of Colour Often Ignored in the Fight Against Rape
Does UN Women’s figure of ‘one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence’ include the majority of women and girls in the world who are of colour and grassroots, and the millions risking their lives to flee war? From the Democratic Republic of Congo to Haiti, from Iraq to Uganda, from India to Peru,…
Our Conference in the Morning Star
Between panels that regularly provoked tears, belly-laughs, chants and standing ovations from the audience, hundreds of buzzing chats took place. Becka Seglow Hudson reports on our international conference for the Morning Star. The opening panel of the conference, with Selma James and Professor Alison Wolf discussing class, care, and the women’s movement, is available to…
The Political Case for Caring Inside the Academy
“Academic institutions are not built for caring” Writes Aliya Yule, volunteer with Women of Colour in the Global Women Strike and Black Women’s Rape Action Project in a piece published both on Media Diversified and the Ain’t I A Woman Collective website. Aliya, who is taking time off from studying at Oxford University, describes the uncaring…
Women Carers Fighting for the Right to not be Impoverished and Overworked
“Women face a dilemma. If we do the caring, men do not become carers with us but consumers of the care we provide. And if we refuse to care, those who need care suffer neglect and worse.” Selma James, coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike had an article published in Open Democracy this week, reviewing…