Workers Party, 17 ESFAND (8 March) is International Women's Day.
On this day. all over from Africa, Australia, America and EuLODC. who struggling for their social and political rights, for equality and to free themselves from oppression, gather together for meetings and demonstrations.
This stems from 8 March 1908. On this day 71 years ago, textile workers in New York protested against inhumane conditions at work and held big demonstrations demanding the right to work.
Two years later in Copenhagen, at a congress of socialist WULLICH. [nIs dav was International Women's Day.
In 1917 on this day, textile workers protested against low pay, bad conditions and food shortages. This strike was the start of a series of struggles to overthrow of the Czar and the success of the revolution. THIS appeal is being distributed by the Socialist Iranian section of the Fourth International, for International Women's Day.
During the 1920s, fight for equality the down, this day was forgotten in Asia, birth of the are liberation movement in the last decade, International Women's Day became a day of solidarity all among all women throughout the world to uproot all forms of ODICSSION and against women and to put an ena. to their inferior status.
For Iranian women this year, International Women's has a certain significance. After one and a half struggles, the autocracy and brutality of the called Pahlavi regime have come to an end.
In the course of this long and hard struggle, women fought shoulder to with their brothers for political and civic freedom. In this fight the they have differences between men's and women's rights and from tiny villages to large towns, millions and even to announce the rally A year of struggle has proved the idea of women's weakness and inferiority to be nonsense.
The thousands who have given their lives freedom and have been beaten after the and killed by the regime bear had died witness to this fact (...)
But with the country women proposed the VarIous women's following demands:
2. Free nurseries for all; 3. The abolition reactionary laws that put the woman s ngat to prejudice other hands;
4. Ine right to autonomous women's groups (...)
Day organise all oppressed women into militant women's organiyears of big sations. It is in this way that our years of success has been realised through the united action of the organised working class and the oppressed.
Although world imperialism have has been badly hit by events in shoulder Iran, final revolution - a new society - is still a long way ahead (...) put Through their participatior militant women have that their liberation is linked to the success of social revolution. demobilise the WITROUE and revolution. on the road to nas but other parts Equal pay for equal work;
of all decide in organise solidarity oppressed throughout the world. success we must called together.
*31 March national Day goal OT there will be and ending shown London WC1. masses is women's liberation liberation without Now, by overthrowing the Shah's regime, the revolution behind it its first obstacle. It must now organise the solidarity of women and oppressed sections to defend these achievements and defend the freeing of women from centuries of oppression.
With the present success it has been made possible for Iranian women to celebrate this day with their sisters throughout the world, and to show their all other working WUHICH To organise for this day a provisional committee has been Participation in this committee is open to all We urge everybody to help up make this day a success.
an Interof Action for In London • a demonstration starting at 1.30 at Hyde Park Wiln a rally in Trafalgar Square. Details from ICAR, 374 Grays Inn Road, 4 sect casts serious doubts on its A cartoon published in the journal Azerbaijan in Tabriz in 1907 shows clearly the weight of the burden which Iranian women are still fighting to throw off.