Selma James (New York, 1930) is a women's rights activist, anti-racist campaigner, and writer. A member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency, from 1958 to 1962 she worked with C. L. R. James in the Caribbean federation and independence movement. In 1972, she founded the International Campaign for Wages for Housework. She co-authored, with Mariarosa Dalla Costa, the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community, which launched the "housework debate." James has analyzed power relations within the labor movement and the problem of organizing across sectors separated by divisions of sex, race, occupation, South-North, and so on. Since 2000, she has participated in the International Women's Strike, whose strategy for change is summarized in the slogan "Invest in Care, Not Death."