Reclaim International Women's Day!
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On International Women’s Day, 8 March, Workers’ Liberty women in London helped organise a meeting to celebrate the original, militant tradition of the day.
Clara Zetkin
AWL North London discussion forum: Clara Zetkin and working-class women's organising
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18 May, 2010 - 22:00 - 23:15
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Is the struggle for women's liberation a class struggle? Do working-class women have common interests with women bosses? Clara Zetkin, the German revolutionary, believed they didn't. She and her comrades helped build a mass working-class women's movement to fight for women's rights within the context of a class struggle against capitalism. Can we learn from their struggles to develop a working-class, socialist feminism today?
Rosa Luxemburg: fiery, sharp, funny, sometimes sad
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Rosie Woods reviews The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, published in March 2011 by Verso Books.
International working women's day
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I had resolved to avoid reading the Guardian on Tuesday 8 March. I knew they would be publishing a “100 most inspiring women list” on this, the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.
Clara Zetkin on the workers' government, 1922
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"The workers' government", by Clara Zetkin, December 1922. First published in 'Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale', Heft 9/10. Translated by Bruce Robinson. Text from: Clara Zetkin, 'Zur Theorie und Taktik der Arbeiterbewegung' , Reclam
Verlag, Leipzig, 1974.
Remembering Rosa Luxemburg — standing against the socialist betrayers, by Clara Zetkin
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Together with Karl Liebnecht and — a little later Leo Jogiches — Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by right wing reactionaries in January 1919, after the failure of the rising by the Spartacists, the young, small, newly-formed Communist Party of Germany. She had spent the years of the First World War mainly in jail.
Who was Clara Zetkin?
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Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) pioneered the idea of a working class-based women's movement. In 1891 she became editor of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) newspaper for women "Die Gleichheit" (Equality) which she produced for 25 years (circulation 112,000 in 1912).
German socialist women’s movement - Self-organisation and class unity
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During the nineteenth century, the emerging workers’ movement began to develop its policy on the “woman question”. Some of the early, “utopian” socialists argued strongly for women’s liberation.
German socialism and the “woman question”
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During the nineteenth century, the emerging workers’ movement began to develop its policy on the “woman question”.
Organising Working-class Women
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The second in a series of articles about the German socialist women's movement 1890-1914, by Janine Booth
Education
German socialist women placed strong emphasis on education. They set up education clubs for women and girls (Frauen- and Madchen-Bildungsverein), which held meetings, hosted lectures, published articles and pamphlets, and gathered information on women’s working conditions. Each club had between 50 and 250 members, who paid a small monthly fee.