03/08/2021
Happy early international women's day, which my girl, communist and notable antifascist Clara Zetkin helped confound. Also let's honor the memory of Lucy Parsons, cofounder of IWW, who died March 7, 1942. Solidarity and all power to the global working class women, men, other genders, and all people!!!!
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/remembering-lucy-gonzales-parsons-international-womens-day/
"Clara helped advance the women’s movement, understanding that the question of the emancipation of all women can only be solved after a complete social transformation. She strongly opposed bourgeois feminism, which she observed was a tool used to divide the working class."
https://twitter.com/pwm_mfp/status/1367905411945275394?s=19
"1910 - Clara Zetkin declares March 8th International Working Women's Day
1917 - Russian women textile workers strike on March 8th, sparking the February revolution
2021 - Burmese women textile workers lead mass strikes against military rule
https://t.co/Ni9xdouuzu"
"how did it start?
in 1910, in the 2nd International Socialist Women Conference in Copenhague, the demand for women’s suffrage was reiterated and, proposed by Clara Zetkin, March 8th was declared as International Womens Day https://t.co/XGJNL1G0M5"
"Clara Zetkin was a German socialist who organised the first International Women's Day in 1911. It started out as a day of campaigning for the rights of working class women. Let us mark today by remembering the radical roots of " https://t.co/du4kF59hlG
"After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day in New York City on 28 February 1909, German delegates Clara Zetkin who was a Marxist with Käte Duncker, Paula Thiede and others proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference." https://t.co/YQYuQxioOc
"On this International Women’s Day we start with acknowledging the first nations women's of all lands who are the keepers of lore and land. 🌍 🌎 🌏
Then we salute Clara Zetkin. 🙌🏿 🙌🏾 🙌🏾 🙌🏽 🙌🏼 🙌🏻 🙌
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"History has it that, International women's Day started in New York in United States of America in 1908 when 15,000 women marched demanding their rights on shorter working hour, better pay and right to vote.
Clara Zetkin made it to be a holiday in 1920 across Europe." https://t.co/sGvX2cwwcy
"1942: Lucy Parsons, co-founder of IWW died on this date. Remember her on International Women's Day. "
"Lucy Parsons is our late and honoree on this International Women's Day. Lucy Parsons was an Industrial Workers of the World co-founder who was born in slavery and died March 7, 1942. She helped organize and lead the winning of the 8 hour work day. " https://t.co/VlcXOJ1ISZ