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Rediscovering the role of communist women
The socialist feminist roots of International Women’s Day are often forgotten. MARY DAVIS previews an event that aims to set the record straight
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FOR many years this paper has been at pains to draw attention to the socialist-feminist origins of International Women’s Day.
We need to remind our movement that Clara Zetkin, a communist, played a leading role in initiating the principle of a day dedicated to the liberation of women.
Along with her comrades in the Second International, Zetkin’s aim was both to highlight and celebrate the struggle of working women against their oppression and double exploitation.
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