a bit of history 
between strip and dinners with friends, between hype and craziness at all costs, we take the "oars" and reflect on this day.
The International Women's Day, commonly known as Women's Day, occurs on 8 March each year to remember both the social achievements of women in political and economic, both discrimination and violence they are yet declared in many parts of the world.
In VII Congress of the Second Socialist International, held in Stuttgart 18 to 24 August 1907, attended by 884 delegates from 25 nations - including the greatest socialist leaders of the time, as the Germans Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, August Bebel , Lenin and Martov the Russians, the French Jean Jaurès - were discussed thesis on what attitude to take in the event of a European war, colonialism, and also on women's issues and demands of the vote to women. On the latter topic
Congress passed a resolution socialist parties committed themselves to "fight vigorously for the introduction of universal suffrage of women," without "an alliance with the bourgeois feminists who claim the right of suffrage, but with the socialist parties fighting for the suffrage of women." Two days later, on August 26 to 27, was held an international conference of socialist women, attended by 58 delegates from 13 countries in which it was decided the creation of an Information Office of Socialist Women: Clara Zetkin was elected secretary and drawn from her journal, Die Gleichheit (Equality), became the organ of the International Socialist Women.
Not everyone shared the decision to exclude any alliance with the "bourgeois feminists": the United States, the Socialist Corinne Brown wrote in February 1908 in the journal The Socialist Woman, that Congress would not have had "no right to dictate to women as a socialist and who work for their liberation. " It was the same Corinne Brown to chair, May 3, 1908, because the absence of the official designated in the conference held every Sunday from the Socialist Party in the Garrick Theater in Chicago: the conference, to which all women were invited, was called "Woman's Day, the day of the woman. In fact, there was discussion of the operational exploitation by employers against women workers in terms of low wages and hours of labor, gender discrimination and voting rights to women.
that initiative did not follow immediately, but at the end of the American Socialist Party urged all local branches' to reserve the last Sunday in February 1909 for organizing a demonstration in favor of women's right to vote '. So it was that the United States and the first official Women's Day was celebrated on February 28, 1909.
The long strike that saw more than 20,000 New York seamstress, which lasted from 22 November 1908-15 February 1909, was seen in Woman's Day held in New York on February 27 next, as an event that united the claims unions to political recognition of the right to vote for women. The American Socialist delegation, strong affirmation of the now-established Women's Day event, so they decided to propose to the second International Conference of Socialist Women, held in Folkets Hus (House of the People) in Copenhagen, 26 to 27 August 1910 - two days before the opening of the eighth Congress of the Socialist International - to establish a common day dedicated to the vindication of the rights of women.
the agendas of the session and in resolutions passed in that conference does not appear that the present 100 women representing 17 countries have set up a day dedicated to the rights of women is, however, in Die Gleichheit, written by Clara Zetkin, a motion for the establishment of the International Women's Day was "was taken as a resolution."
While the U.S. continues to be held the last Sunday of February, in some European countries - Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark - International Women's Day was held for the first time March 19, 1911 [1] on the choice of the International Secretariat Socialist women. According to the testimony of Aleksandra Kollontaj, that date was chosen because in Germany, "March 19, 1848 during the revolution, the King of Prussia for the first time to recognize the power of a people in arms and surrender before the threat of a proletarian revolt. Among the many promises made that and then forgot, included the recognition of the right of women to vote. " In France, the event was held March 18, 1911, when it fell on the fortieth anniversary of the Paris Commune.
But it was not repeated every year, not celebrated in all countries was held in Russia for the first time in St. Petersburg in 1913, March 3, at the initiative of the Bolshevik Party, with a rally in the stock market Kalašaikovskij, and was interrupted by the Tsarist police that operated numerous arrests. In Germany, after the celebration of 1911, was repeated for the first time on 8 March 1914, a day of "Red Week" proclaimed by the upheavals of German socialists, while in France held a conference organized by the Socialist Party in Paris March 9, 1914.
The celebrations were interrupted by World War in all the belligerent countries, while in St. Petersburg, 8 March 1917 - February 23 according to the Julian calendar then in force in Russia - the women of the capital led a large demonstration that the claimed end of the war: the sluggish reaction of the Cossacks sent to quell the protest encouraged further protests that led to the collapse of Tsarism, now completely discredited and even without the support of the armed forces, so that the 8 March 1917 has remained in history to indicate the beginning of the "Russian Revolution February. For this reason, and to fix a common day for all countries, 14 June 1921 the Second international conference of Communist women, held in Moscow a week before the opening of the Third Congress of the Communist set at 8 March, the "International Day of the worker."
In Italy, the International Women's Day was held for the first time only in 1922 on the initiative of the Communist Party of Italy, who wanted to celebrate March 12 as the first Sunday after the now fateful March 8. In those days it was founded the biweekly magazine Company, which reported on 1 March 1925 an article by Lenin, who died the year before, he remembered on 8 March as International Women's Day, which had taken an active part in social struggles and in the overthrow of Tsarism. The strong political connotation
Women's Day, the political isolation of Russia and the communist movement and, finally, the events of World War II, contributed to the loss of historical memory of the real origins of the event. So after the war began to circulate other versions, according to which the March 8 would remember the deaths of hundreds of workers in the fire in a shirt factory in New York, which is likely to be confused with a real tragedy that occurred in that city on 25 March 1911, factory fire Triangle, in which 146 workers died, mostly young immigrant women from Europe. Other versions cited the violent police repression of a demonstration by union textile workers in New York in 1857, [3] while others reported that strikes or accidents that occurred in Chicago, Boston or New York.
Despite the research carried out by different feminists in the late 70s and 80s have shown the error of these reconstructions, the same is still widespread among the mass media in the propaganda of the unions.
In September 1944 he created in Rome the UDI, Union Women in Italy, at the initiative of women in the CP, the Socialist Party, the Party of Action, the Left and the Christian Democrats and Labour was the UDI to take the initiative to celebrate the March 8, 1945, the first day of women in the zones of freedom, while in London was approved and sent the UN a Women's Charter which demands equal rights and working conditions. By the end of the war, March 8, 1946 was celebrated throughout Italy and saw the first appearance of its symbol, the mimosa, which blooms in its first days of March, according to an idea of \u200b\u200bTeresa Noce, [8] Rita Montagnana and Teresa Mattei.
In the years of 1950 years of the Cold War and the Ministry Scelba, distribute or disseminate that day mimosa We women, the monthly magazine of the Union of Italian Women (UDI), was an act "likely to disturb public order", and hold a banquet on the street became "illegal occupation of public land." [10] In 1959 the Parliamentary Pina Palumbo, Giuliana Nenni Luisa Balboni and presented a proposal law to make International Women's Day a national holiday, but the initiative fell on deaf ears.
The political climate improved in the following decade, but the applicant still did not get the public hearing until, with the seventies, there appeared a new phenomenon in Italy: the feminist movement. Otto March
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