We campaign for the eradication of the economic exploitation, sexism and racism faced by women globally

• WLA will work to abolish the apparatus of racism and sexism which continue to maintain women’s oppression within the economic system that relies and depends upon our labour power and our social reproductive capacities.

• WLA prioritises the abolition of the codependent dynamics of racism and sexism.

• Sexism normalises the central significance of women’s caring and nurturing roles, enabling the domestic labour women perform to appear ‘natural’ as a ‘gender’ role.

• Racism normalises the oppression and exploitation of Black people and for women, combines with sexism in specific ways.

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Challenge and end women’s double economic burden and exploitation WLA will work to challenge women’s oppression in society and our super- exploitation as workers. We understand this to be founded on the clash between women’s role in social production and our role in domestic reproduction – in other words the double burden of women’s labour in the home and at work. Women’s jobs at work are traditionally offshoots of our domestic responsibilities – cooking cleaning caring – all undervalued and low paid. In addition, women workers often have to juggle their two roles at work and at home. This life-long double burden together with job segregation accounts for women’s low pay (super- exploitation) as workers. In this way women’s oppression and super-exploitation are inextricably linked.  It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Ensure that women’s demands for fair and equal treatment and participation in work and the labour movement are prioritised and actioned WLA recognises that although women form 56% of total union membership, trade unions still primarily represent the interests of white male members and as such mirror the hierarchy of the world of work. The low status of women and Black people in the workplace is reflected in their continuing low status within the labour movement. Women’s self-organisation must be defended & extended, guaranteeing that our issues are integral to every aspect of trade union organisation and collective bargaining.This means retaining and extending women’s only committees, courses and conferences to ensure that women’s issues/concerns are collectively articulated and actioned.

Develop and share responses to the material and ideological challenges (including fundamentalism and far right populism) experienced by women and girls : WLA is committed to opposing religious fundamentalist and far right movements. Both are based on supremacist and anti-rights ideologies that seek to uphold hierarchical structures of discrimination, oppression and inequality. These authoritarian movements share many common features in pursuit of their goals: to gain access to state resources and political power; to extend social control over women and other vulnerable sub-groups and to police dissent through intimidation and violence. Challenging religious fundamentalism and all forms of authoritarian and far right politics requires concerted feminist activism and solidarity, mobilised around key universal principles of equality, democracy and human rights at local, national and transnational levels.

Work in solidarity with women’s struggles for rights locally and globally: WLA views the struggle for women’s rights as international. We recognise that global military/industrial power relies on the exploitation of female labour in production and reproduction. The profits and the so-called benefits tend to accrue in one part of the world whilst the exploitation and losses are inflicted in another.