March 8, is International Women\u2019s Day. The earliest Women’s Day celebrations\u00a0were organized in the early twentieth century by commie firebrand types like Germany\u2019s Clara Zetkin and Russia\u2019s Alexandra Kollantai. The purpose was to bring together two great political movements, feminism and socialism, and to pay tribute women\u2019s revolutionary potential. The March 8th date was chosen to commemorate the historic protests\u00a0that took place on March 8, 1857, when female garment workers in New York City took to the streets to protest low wages and dangerous working conditions. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 women in 1911, led to renewed activism that popularlized\u00a0 International Women’s Day celebrations throughout the world.<\/p>\n
March 8, is International Women\u2019s Day. The earliest Women’s Day celebrations\u00a0were organized in the early twentieth century by commie firebrand types like Germany\u2019s Clara Zetkin and Russia\u2019s Alexandra Kollantai. The purpose was to bring together two great political movements, feminism … Continue reading ![\"Women's](\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Womens-Day-in-Iraq-300x188.jpg\")
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