London, UK. 8th March 2018. Women hold placards in the crowd of over a thousand people, mainly women, are at the London Women's Strike in Russell Square on International Women’s Day. There were a series of speeches, singing and events to mark the day of strike by women, refusing to do work either paid or unpaid, including housework and domestic Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
London, UK. 8th March 2018. Women hold placards in the crowd of over a thousand people, mainly women, are at the London Women's Strike in Russell Square on International Women’s Day. There were a series of speeches, singing and events to mark the day of strike by women, refusing to do work either paid or unpaid, including housework and domestic work. The organisers say the "Women's Strike is a strike for solidarity between women - women of colour, indigenous, working class, disabled, migrant, Muslim, lesbian, queer and trans women" and "is about realising the power we already hold - activating and nourishing resistance." Groups of those on strike took part in a number of events elsewhere, including several protests in support of cleaners at the TopShop and The Royal Opera in Covent Garden, and cinema workers at Picturhouse, calling for an end to immigration detention an in solidarity with the Yarls Wood hunger strikers, for Unilever to withdraw its investment in Myanmar where its presence supports a government that has brutally raped, tortured and killed many Rohingya, and supporting sex workers by calling for the decriminalisation of prostitution. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
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