1. Selma James was raised in a Jewish household and her father was a truck driver while her mother had been a factory worker prior to having children.
12 Facts About Selma James
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Selma James was a regular columnist and edited the Women's Page.
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That same year, Selma James founded the International Wages for Housework campaign, which demands money from the State for the unwaged work in the home and in the community.
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Selma James was the first spokeswoman of the English Collective of Prostitutes, which campaigns for decriminalisation as well as viable economic alternatives to prostitution.
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Since 2000, Selma James has been international coordinator of the Global Women's Strike, a network of grassroots women, bringing together actions and initiatives in many countries.
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Selma James has been working with the Venezuelan Revolution since 2002.
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Selma James is a founder of the Crossroads Women's Centre, begun under the WFH auspices in 1975 in a red-light district near London's Euston railway station and now located in Kentish Town, and is general editor of Crossroads Books.
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Selma James gave a talk in a session hosted by the Tanzania Edinburgh Community Association on Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa in the 1960s in Tanzania with reference to the subject of Ruvuma Development Association, and the Tanzania Arusha Declaration.
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In July 2015, Selma James endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.
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Selma James is a founder member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and, in May 2008, signed the Letter of British Jews on 60th anniversary of Israel published in The Guardian, explaining why she would not celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary.
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Selma James appeared briefly in Sir Steve McQueen's 2020 retelling of the Mangrove Nine trial, entitled Mangrove, which formed part of McQueen's Small Axe strand.
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Selma James was a participant in How the Mangrove Nine Won, an hour-long film launched in 2020 giving first-hand accounts of the Mangrove Nine trial, featuring Ian Macdonald and Altheia Jones-LeCointe.