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Global Women's Strike demands
Payment for all caring work - in wages, pensions, land & other resources. What is more valuable than raising children & caring for others? Invest in life & welfare, not military budgets or prisons
Pay equity for all, women & men, in the global market.
Food security for breastfeeding mothers, paid maternity leave and maternity breaks. Stop penalizing us for being women.
Don't pay 'Third World debt'. We owe nothing, they owe us.
Accessible clean water, healthcare, housing, transport, literacy.
Non-polluting energy & technology which shortens the hours we work. We all need cookers, fridges, washing machines, computers, & time off!
Protection & asylum from all violence & persecution, including by family members & people in positions of authority.
Freedom of movement. Capital travels freely, why not people?
Selma James
Co-ordinator of Global Women's Strike
Quoted in NY Times Op-Ed: Pay People to Cook at Home!

Sex, Race & Class - a new book by Selma James
Buy the book! UK and US
Rave Reviews!
Speaking at The Life and Legacy of C.L.R. James Conference
In the Guardian: From welfare to wages, women fight back against the uncaring market
Thatcherism hasn't failed: it has infected all our politics
More Guardian articles
Debating Edwina Currie on Margaret Thatcher - Radio 4
Listen to speak in Ireland: "How can women defeat austerity?"
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Links
- All African Women's Group
- Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders
- Black Women's Rape Action Project
- Every Mother is a Working Mother Network
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
- International Prostitutes Collective
- Legal Action for Women
- Refusing to kill (Payday Men's Network)
- Single Mothers' Self-Defence
- Wages due Lesbians
- Winvisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities)
- Women Against Rape














