Two days late ... I would like to pay tribute to
March 8, and wish all present here a happy international woman's day!
As
comrade Stalin once observed, with his usual astute insight into arithmetic equations:
Quote:"Working women are the greatest reserve of the working class. This reserve constitutes a good half of the population."
It is therefore, obviously and urgently,
Quote:"the first task of the proletariat and its advance detachment, the Communist Party, to engage in decisive struggle for the freeing of women workers and peasants from the influence of the bourgeoise and the organisation of women workers and peasants beneath the banner of the proletariat."
And let them not say that there is no joy in the women's contribution to a better life for the workers and peasants of our nations! Look and see how contentedly
"in a village near Lake Baikal, women walk home arm-in-arm after celebrating International Women's Day"!
But then, there is inspiration to be found in all that is still to be achieved. After all, isn't it still true,
what the women from the Petersburg Inter-District Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party wrote, this very day, 87 years ago?
Quote:"It is already a long time since hunger drove women into the factories, and for a long time now women, just like men, have been working all day at their machines. The factory bosses squeeze the sweat out of us just as they do with our male comrades."
They justly admonish you, sisters, to stand up for your rights without reserve!
Quote:"Women are often still fearful, they do not know what to demand or how to demand it. Their ignorance and timidity has always been used and still is used by the bosses. On this day, comrades, let us think in particular about how we can defeat our enemies, the capitalists, as quickly as possible"!
Even today, the dichotomy that faces us is clear. Just look at the images below, and see the clear choice that lies before us.
Here - the image of
"Iraqi women shout[ing] during a rally in the centre of Iraqi capital Baghdad on March 8, 2004". Several hundreds of them were forced to face the powers that rule over them head-on, and
"demanded more rights in a demonstration, marking the International women's day"!
And here - ah, bliss - the alternative:
"Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a tea party after the awards presentation ceremony held on International Women's Day in Novo-Ogaryovo."
