Take the Women's Strike Pledge

On 8 March women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual.

In London the Women's Strike Assembly will meet at 1pm Russell Square. Please pledge to join the strike in what ever way you can, this could be an 'out of office' response on your email, wearing red for the day, not doing the dishes, not shopping, asking someone else to do the school run...you decide how you participate, and through these collective actions we hope the hidden work done by women will become more obvious to all.

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• For every woman who is sick to death of being sexually harassed and bullied at work.
• For every woman who is hungry and unable to heat her house.
• For every woman suffering because of benefit cuts or poverty wages.
• For every woman who is expected to earn less than her male colleagues and then come home and start a second shift of cooking, cleaning and caring.
• For every woman who is kept powerless by whore stigma.
• For every woman of transgender experience who is subject to violence and whose womanhood is denied by the state, her doctor, her employers, and those around her.
• For every woman who is told she is just going through a phase, that she's too pretty to be a lesbian or too ugly to be straight and has endured homophobia, biophobia or queerphobia at home, at work and in the street.
• For every woman who has worked herself to the bone to keep the national health and education systems functioning and yet has not received a pay rise in years.
• For every woman who has suffered violence at the hands of partners, friends, colleagues or bosses and is not believed.
• For every woman who faces violence at the hands of the state through immigration raids, mass incarceration and racist policing.

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Women's work makes life possible. And for that work, we are rewarded with violence and exploitation in the streets, at work and at home. The recent #metoo campaign has exposed the daily reality of sexual harassment and violence that is at the centre of our labour exploitation. To add insult to injury, we're told that our suffering is inevitable – even natural. We strike to reject that lie. We strike for a world where women can live free from violence and exploitation.

Nothing is external to the women's movement.

We will strike and we will win.

#westrike to invent a time of our own where our desires and needs are the basis of a new form of life on earth.

Join us – we have a world to win.