Remember: IWD was founded in 1911 as International Working Women’s Day – a socialist, anti-racist celebration in honour of migrant women’s unionised struggles to escape terrible working conditions in garment factories. 100 years on, it's morphed into something very different.🧵

The key point she makes here is that the reality on the ground in Gaza is so much worse than anything we are seeing on our screens.

I wrote about Israel’s obsession with Palestinian women’s underwear and the silence of mainstream feminism for The New Arab newarab.com/opinion/iwd-is…

We are here outside the RCJ to call on the Sentencing Council to stop sending pregnant women and new mothers to prison. Babies and children need their mums this #MothersDay! #nobirthsbehindbars

The campaign to end imprisonment of pregnant women & mothers is colourful, child-centred and soundtracked by reggae nursery rhymes 💛💚💛 #NoBirthsBehindBars No Births Behind Bars

London is swimming in a sea of love for Palestine ♥️♥️♥️🇵🇸 Hope you're watching Rishi Sunak

Miles de personas en Donosti recrean el genocidio en Gaza perpetrado por Israel mientras suena la sirena antiaérea de Gernika. El mundo entero tendría que estar haciendo lo mismo. Estremecedor.

🎉HUGE NEWS! Pregnancy is now a mitigating factor in sentencing! Courts must consider a woman’s health & that all pregnancies in prison are high-risk. A huge milestone in the campaign to end imprisonment of pregnant women!! 🎉 independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Big up to #NoBirthsBehindBars! 💛 “As parents of small children, it has been unconscionable to live in a society that treats pregnant women and new mothers in such a brutal and inhumane way” - No Births Behind Bars

Reincorporación de Soledad Carregui como supervisora de partos del Hospital La Plana - Sign the Petition! chng.it/xFrZHxLF via Change.org UK

This is a grave, grave war crime. Shame on those celebrating it.

For anybody interested in continuity of carer in maternity services - the report of our independent evaluation of implementation of MCoC has just been published city.ac.uk/news-and-event… Centre for Maternal & Child Health Research NHS England Christine McCourt Ellinor Olander Juliet Rayment @MaryRossDavie

GOOD NEWS: A woman whose sentence appeal we were involved in has been released and has given birth to a baby who she will now raise among family — instead of prison officers. It’s happening: pregnant women are being released, case law is strengthening, a new era is being born!

A bird's-eye view of the huge anti-racist mobilisation happening in Walthamstow right now. Via Novara Media’s Charlotte England.