Soviet Poster claimed on 8 March as "day of working women revolt against the tyranny of the kitchen"
There are various versions
why the March 8 is International Day of Working Women.
Our country is traditionally associated with the memory of fire in the Cotton Textile Factory in New York in 1908, which killed 129 workers, enclosed by the pattern while developing a strike.
Other versions say that it actually commemorated on March 8 textile workers strike New Yorkers in 1857.
The decision to hold an international day to raise the claims of the workers was taken at the Second Conference of Socialist Women held in August 1910 in the Danish city of Copenhagen. The proposal was of German revolutionary Clara Zetkin and stated "Together class organizations, political parties and unions proletariat in each country, the world socialist women held an annual Women's Day. Its main objective is to obtain voting rights for women. This demand must be raised within the context global issues concerning women, according to socialist principles. Women's Day should be international and must be prepared carefully ."... There were
this day in history of the mobilizations that performed the American Socialist Party joining the demands of the workers (reduced working hours, better conditions in the workshops, etc.) With voting rights of women. Over the years, added to these demands the rejection of the imperialist war was approaching. The first "Women's Day" that America is no record in 1908 and was organized, until 1914, last day of February.
According to some, this same conference in Copenhagen that this date was established on 8 March in memory of the struggles of the New York textiles, others that it was not, and given as an argument that the years after, 1911 , 1912 and 1913, the celebration was on March 8th.
Indeed, the first International Day of Women Workers in Europe is celebrated on March 19, 1911 in Germany, Austria, Denmark and Switzerland. Russia was first held in 1913 under the name International Workers Day. There is a strong repression of the Tsarist police and some of the organizers are deported to Siberia. This event takes place under the banner of the peace movement on the eve of the First World War.
already for 1914 and 1915 the date was March 8, and there were events in Germany, Sweden, France and Denmark. In those years the activity is focused on protests against war, militarism and the right to vote.
The international day of working
The February 23, 1917, which corresponds to the Russian calendar of that time in our March 8, thousands of women took to the streets against poverty policy that caused Tsarist and that imperialist war is over, as part of a great revolutionary wave. Four days later the Czar fell, a fact that went down in history as the Revolution of February.
History "official" Communist Party of the USSR, the February 23, 1917 "Workers celebrated the International Workers Day (International Women's Day)" with a march by workers of Petrograd who joined the women. Other sources indicate that "the revolution was beginning in the ranks of bread in front of bakeries. The village women began "(Progress Records, No. 6, October 15 1919).
In 1921, the Second Conference of Communist Women in Moscow in the framework of the Third International, Communist parties decide to stabilize the March 8 as International Day of the worker ", in homage to the workers Petrograd.
Throughout the 20s and 30s the Communist parties gave this effect to 8 March.
Many years later, in 1975, the United Nations took this date, March 8, and proclaimed as International Women's Day. They took the character of the claims of workers, leaving only the gender, and the foundations of its resolution is not the slightest mention of incidents perpetrated by Russian women in the February Revolution.
add to this brief review that recently several researchers argue that the Cotton Strike of March 8, 1908 did not exist, and that day was Sunday, and you can not specify that the strike of the weavers Yorkers 1857 was 8 March.
That fire, which did occur was that of the Triangle Shirstway Company, the largest manufacturer of blouses in New York on March 25, 1911, which killed 147 workers because the employer kept the doors output padlocked.
Beyond what the true origin of this date, this debate shows is the silence that has been made in recent years the role of communist women's movement in the struggle for women's rights, first the workers, and women in general.
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