Selma James
On the occasion of the launch of Selma James’ anthology Sex, Race and Class – The Perspective of Winning, Selma will be doing a speaking tour in Scotland and northern England during October.
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IN 1972 SELMA JAMES SET OUT A NEW POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and whose struggles were viewed as outside of capitalism. For James, the class struggle presents...
by Seth Sandronsky June 2012
Men and women work. But they labor under conditions of coercion. That fact is in force in and out of the home. Both settings are the concern of Selma James, 81, Brooklyn-bred in a Jewish-American, leftist working-class family, and a self-defined activist who...
July 2012
Sex Race And Class: The Perspective Of Winning offers writings from 1952-2011 and packs in social, political and literary observations by a woman who in 1972 set out a new political perspective for women not seen as 'workers' and therefore who were considered outside the class...
Selma James
Co-ordinator of Global Women's Strike
Wed 15 May Speaking at Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group Public Workshop discussion on 'Work'
Quoted in NY Times Op-Ed: Pay People to Cook at Home!
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
Sex, Race & Class - a new book by Selma James
Buy the book! UK and US
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Debating Edwina Currie on Margaret Thatcher - Radio 4
Listen to speak in Ireland: "How can women defeat austerity?"
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