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March 8 - International Day of Women s Solidarity
09.03.2021
International Women s Day. Photo credit: Vestnik YURPA
International Women s Day is one of the most popular holidays among men and one of the most loved days among women in the former Soviet Union. It is celebrated in many countries of the world on March 8.
According to some sources, 28 countries recognize this day as an official holiday, while others claim there are 32 such countries. And it is not that easy to do the math, since there are essential differences in the status of this day.
Many sources believe that the foundation of the holiday was laid on February 28, 1908, when a mass rally for women’s equality was held in New York. In particular, women protested against working conditions, stood for equal wages with men, and, most importantly, for giving women the voting right. It should be noted that people who considered themselves absolutely apolitical used to join the rallies for women s rights at that time
March 5, 2021
Imprecor[1], the French-language journal of the Fourth International, is an excellent piece overall. However, I would like to point out that his statement about Russian Marxism includes a couple of misunderstandings.
Was Plekhanov a mechanical economist?
Michael Löwy criticizes Russian Marxism s abandonment of late Karl Marx s theory of the future Russian revolution (as expressed in the preface to the Russian edition of the
Communist Manifesto), as follows:
Marx and [Friedrich] Engels had not hesitated to suggest, in their preface to the Russian edition of the
Communist Manifesto (1882), that If the Russian Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development . However, after their deaths, this perspective on the Russian revolution, which raised the suspicion that it would resemble the vision of
Nadezhda Krupskaya: Bolshevik revolutionary and educator
By Devin Cole posted on March 1, 2021
Feb. 14 is the birth date of Nadezhda Krupskaya – Bolshevik revolutionary, educator and library advocate. Although born to a formerly aristocratic family, her family had descended into poverty, which led her to study Marxism. She joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903.
Nadezhda Krupskaya
In 1905, Krupskaya became Secretary of the Central Committee of the RSDLP’s Bolshevik wing, which later became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, after the split in 1917 with the nonrevolutionary Mensheviks.
In the early days of the Soviet Union, Krupskaya took charge of the Adult Education Division of the new educational system, which revolutionized education in the world’s first socialist republic.
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