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For International Women’s Day SOAS radio interviewed three women from Latin America who share their experiences as migrant workers in London. Their stories are a powerful reminder that women’s experiences are shot through with differences of nationality, social status, age, race and class. Consuela Moreno from Columbia recounts some of the difficulties she has experienced at London workplaces including SOAS and shares her determination to organise to resist these pressures. Berena Contreras Perez shares her personal experiences as a migrant worker in London and reminds us that the legacy of International Working Women’s Day (the precursor of today’s International Women’s Day) has not lost any of its relevance. Marlene Jimenez tells us about her experiences of discrimination and the pressures on women workers in London. She shares her experience supporting other workers as well as her vision of empowering workers to change their situation through unionisation and educational work.