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The strikes that made international working women's day

11:45am Sun 20 Apr
melbourne

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In 1910 German socialist Clara Zetkin moved a motion to establish International Working Women's Day as a day of protest uniting the labour movement around women's specific demands. Two years earlier Manhattan's Lower East Side had been shaken by a momentous strike of female needle workers beginning on March 8. The date was selected for IWD to commemorate the stirrings of women's industrial organisation. A century later, the day is claimed by liberal feminists and corporate PR pushers to brush over class divisions between women. Join this discussion to celebrate the real history of International Women's Day.

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