N EN DEMAN downtrodden stitutes, were abandoning the queues, the bakeries, vast the vote unrough une cily streets Gathering place colnuchce over unc next rew days, they began to storm the officers' barracks and their guns. The factories stop ocu. begun.
On Women's Day in 1926 the women in Shanghai came out on strike and started an insurrection in which they tought vedi on the front line and General Strike inspired hunfor dreds of women suttrage demonstrate 1913 it was London, and Shipley.
In 194› i stance, women munitions workers various their than rewomen's its integrity the Russian district rallies. But the war drive conHitler women's sick pay and materbenefits;
other invading Abyssinia;
littering Spain with tration camps. and Japan in vading China, Women's Day in 1936 linked demands for equal popular united front against fascism.
Inal year Ilallan with their children lay across it a railwav lines and invaded army barracks to harangue the soldiers: wollicu demonstrated in support of Viennese the protested to the Italian Amprowomen smashing up and surging passion and demonstrations Finland and Poland The Line Soviet The 1917 revolution had in every theatre.
By that In Britain on that day, the used to workers to anguish Manchester, and WOrk sibilities.
joined anti-wa Militant women lead the strike at Chix, Reading in 1980.
an slashing Britain in Mussolini IWD arred demanded Sal 20,000 Swedish the League of Nations take sanctions against Germany; and there were large women's da!
in Norway, largest demonstrations on 8 March 1936 were in Union WITT meetings, concerts and socials factory, farm and time Women's Day in the Soviet Union had become totally tied to general political programmes. It wa:
promote the cult of motherhood and deny all the of the burden of family responIn 1930, for example, the slogan for the day had been '100 per cent collectivisation'.
attended NAW movement blessing It was not until 1941 that Women's Day commitee was set up In the style of not the old. Equal LWO subsequent conventions on March under the slogans 'The want children' and 'Bring back our husbands from Korea'.
It was not until the rise of the new women's liberation that March regained some of its old spirit, has become more peripheral in recent years In 1975, the United Na. biless had give worried then worried that it might be dressed up as a kind of glorified mother's day or lost in myths of revolutionary Petrograd.
Latin American Women's Organisation invites you to celebrate Photo: PŁIE GRANI socialist Challenge.
Women sensitive to these fears felt that men shouldn't join the next year's march and ingenited on Mary Chas tingent 8 March always been day when women demonstrated anger and strength without men We are now beginning to see the real possibility of huge women's day demonstrations, on the need for strikes for equal pay, against the Thatcher nightmare, against Cruise missiles, against cuts in social services; to make it a day to remember our past and celebrate our strength.