Today’s left largely misunderstands and therefore misrepresents Clara Zetkin’s contribution to the politics of Marxism. Ben Lewis provides an excerpt from the introduction to a newly translated pamphlet
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
Azerbaijan recognized women's right to vote in 1918, and the United States did it in 1920, USAID Mission Director in Azerbaijan Jaidev Singh told the 4th SHE Congress - International Women's Congress in Baku, Report informs.
J-Wire salutes these women who played their part in shaping the Australia in which we live today. Gladys Marks was born in 1883 in Brisbane and by the 1920s was the first female lecturer in the Faculty of Arts as well as the first female to act as a head of a department at the…