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NEWS & LETTERS, March 2002
International Women's Day, 2002
A Revolutionary Legacy:
Past, Present and Future ----- From ROSA LUXEMBURG, WOMENS
LIBERATION AND MARX'S PHILOSOPHY OF REVOLUTION by Raya Dunayevskaya "When [Clara] Zetkin
proposed to the 1910 Second International Women's Conference that an
International Women's Day be adopted, it was an act of solidarity with the
organizing struggles of the American garment workers who had erupted in the
"Uprising of the 20,000" the year before." ----- From WOMEN'S LIBERATION AND THE
DIALECTICS OF REVOLUTION: REACHING FOR THE FUTURE, by Raya Dunayevskaya "There came, with the
celebration of International Women's Day [1979], a mass outpouring of women
bearing the banner, "We made the revolution for freedom, and got unfreedom,
which may very well have opened Chapter 2 of the Iranian Revolution." Order both books from News
& Letters, 36 S. Wabash, room 1440, Chicago IL 60603. ----- Chicago International Women's Day 2002 Committee presents: "Women Confronting Fundamentalism Globally" Saturday |
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