History of International Women's Day Event
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We're hosting our fourth event of the semester on Monday, March 6th @ 6:30pm in Vertigo Lounge.
International Women’s Day – originally International Working Women’s Day – kicked off the February Revolution in 1917, leading to the downfall of the Russian monarchy and, eventually, the Bolsheviks’ revolutionary seizure of power in October of the same year.
A hundred years later, women’s liberation remains far from complete. American women today are leading the charge in resistance following the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, manifesting in solidarity with oppressed and exploited women worldwide in one of the most historic mass women’s marches in history. At the same time, figures such as BC Premier Christy Clark, British Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are today’s face of a neoliberalised ‘feminism’, committed to backing a corporations-first politics of low wages, weak... unions, and slashing of social programmes that hits women hardest.
Come join our discussion on the history of International Working Women’s Day, and how women’s mass movements have often been, and continue to be a lightning rod of change in society.
Here is the event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1247517645295289/
Hope to see you there!
In Solidarity,
Socialist Fightback Club