The Global Women’s Strike was happy to support the 1st UK-wide Youth Strike 4 Climate #FFF in Parliament Square on 15 February. Several thousand multi-racial resolute school students gathered in Parliament Sq and blockaded the traffic. Actions were planned in at least 60 towns and cities across the UK, from Cornwall to the Highlands.  Young women … Continue reading GWS on the 1st UK-wide Youth Strike 4 Climate #FFF

WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S STRIKE? ● The first Global Women’s Strike (coordinated by the Wages for Housework Campaign - WFH) was called for 8 March 2000, inspired by the 1975 Iceland women’s Day Off and a strike call by women in Ireland ● In 2016 women in Poland stopped work against anti-abortion laws ● … Continue reading 8 March: picket Royal Courts of Justice 12-2 pm

Dear Friends Please sign, and circulate the Petition to the UK Government and Parliament: Repeal the two child limit to Tax Credits and Universal Credit http://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/233887 Tweet from Unison, 11 Jan 2019 http://twitter.com/unisontweets/status/1083665095304101888 UNISON - the union‏ @unisontweets The decision not to extend the 2 child limit to families that had their third child before 6 … Continue reading Please sign: Unison petition to repeal two child limit to Universal Credit +Tax Credits

Another kind of Question Time             We welcome to London     who will be joined by   LEANNE WOOD former leader of Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales)   NATALIE BENNETT former leader of the Green Party       Chaired by Selma James 7-9 pm Thursday 21 February Crossroads Women’s Centre 25 Wolsey Mews, London … Continue reading Thur 21 Feb: Another kind of Question Time w Leanne Wood & Natalie Bennett

Save the date! – Saturday 2 Feb 2019 Film screening: How the Mangrove 9 Won Altheia Jones-LeCointe, defendant and point of reference for the Black Panther Movement (UK) which organised the defence. Ian Macdonald, now QC, then key barrister of the defence team. Key participants describe the successful trial and community organising which spearheaded the … Continue reading Screening Mangrove 9 film, Sat 2 Feb

  Since 17 November, there’s been widespread street protests and road blocks all over France by the ‘gilets jaunes’ (named after the hi-vis yellow vests they wear). They were sparked off by an increase in the tax on petrol while the rich had had a tax cut. The movement has grown and broadened its demands … Continue reading France: Mothers denounce police brutality

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 … Continue reading Statement from a Yellow Vests group in France

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 … Continue reading 11 Dec: Protecting Breastfeeding from state intervention