Women were then only beginning to emerge into citizenship and political activity. Transforming vision into reality was difficult. It also brought resolutions to Comintern world congresses. The Secretariat published a monthly journal, and there were also Communist women’s publications nationally and locally. It also initiated the formation of women’s commissions in national parties, which coordinated work by women’s bodies on a branch level, and called periodic international conferences of Communist women. The Communist Women’s Movement was founded by a world gathering of Communist women in 1921, which elected a leadership, the International Women’s Secretariat, reporting to the Executive of the Communist International, or Comintern. Moreover, this movement itself has been almost forgotten, as have most of its central leaders. Less often mentioned, however, how it was relaunched and popularized in the 1920s by the Communist Women’s Movement. labour struggles early in the last century. When we celebrate International Women’s Day, we often refer to its origins in U.S. For Spanish-language translation, see IPS blog de debate. The following working paper was presented to the Toronto conference of Historical Materialism on May 16, 2010.
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