on 08-03-2014 08:49 AM
http://www.wftucentral.org/?p=7323&language=en
On the occasion of the International Working Women’s Day, the Secretariat of the WFTU salutes the working women and expresses its solidarity to their everyday struggles for the improvement of their living and working conditions.
The class-oriented trade union movement internationally, the affiliates and friends of the WFTU have been engaged in national efforts to strengthen the working women’s movement. More women’s committees have been established within the structures of the trade unions in the spirit of the resolutions of the 16th World Trade Union Congress.
According to the Action Plan approved at the 2014 Presidential Council Session in Rome, Italy on February 14-15th, the WFTU has set forth for the 1st World Congress for Working Women to take place by the end of 2014.
We should join these efforts in a World Congress, discuss the difficulties faced, debate on the developments in the workers movement, form a joint platform of demands and coordinate our struggle for the strengthening of the working women’s movement internationally, to lay the ground for further breakthroughs in their rights and conquests.
For the class-oriented trade union movement, for the WFTU, the struggle against the dual exploitation of the working women and the anti-labor reforms that add further burden to them and for the satisfaction of the contemporary needs of the working women have always been a priority.
on 08-03-2014 02:00 PM
It used to be a huge day of celebrations when I was growing up. Bigger than today's Valentinte's Day. As a primary school student, I remember it was obligatory to present female teachers with flowers.
During the initial Stalinist period of People’s Poland, Women's Day could hardly have been a barrel of laughs for women or anyone else. Between ’48 and ’56, Polish women were exhorted on Women’s Day to exceed production norms. Polish newspapers of the period graciously wished the women of Poland ‘greater work efficiency’. Instead of decadent Western pin-up calendars, portraits of female ‘Stakhaovites’, (superlatively productive workers), held pride of place in Polish workshops.
Soon after the somewhat grim days of imposed Stalinist rule in Poland, the communist powers that be noticed that, as well as having exceptional plough skills, Polish women were also mothers, wives and, above all, exceptionally beautiful. Although the state controlled mass-media still continued to exhort the women of Poland ‘to build a socialistic future’, the newspapers and the party made the drastic concession of wishing women personal happiness as well. Stalin and his cronies must have turned in their graves.
By the seventies, ‘International Women’s Day’, had gained acceptance by Polish society generally, in both the public and private spheres. It was at this time that ‘A flower for Ewa’ (A flower for Eve) became a Communist party slogan. The Day was celebrated by official speeches at work, men bought their female colleagues flowers, usually carnations, and boys presented the girls in their class with flowers as well. Under the ‘one size fits all’ policy of the then command economy, female factory workers were given presents of tights – all regulation size, of course.
http://sz-n.com/2014/03/a-flower-for-ewa-a-short-history-of-dzien-kobiet-womens-day-in-poland/
on 08-03-2014 02:03 PM
we are going to have to change our calander, make it longer
we are running out of days for all these "days"
on 08-03-2014 02:06 PM
@*mrgrizz* wrote:we are going to have to change our calander, make it longer
we are running out of days for all these "days"
mr grizz, it has been going since 1911 - its nothing new.
on 08-03-2014 02:08 PM
@boris1gary wrote:
@*mrgrizz* wrote:we are going to have to change our calander, make it longer
we are running out of days for all these "days"
mr grizz, it has been going since 1911 - its nothing new.
what about all the other "days"?you can't have them sharing
08-03-2014 02:14 PM - edited 08-03-2014 02:16 PM
on 08-03-2014 02:19 PM
@**meep** wrote:
@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:when is International Men's Day?
19th of November
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day
Darn, don't let the men in my life know.
I brainwashed them to think it was 29th February.
DEB
on 08-03-2014 02:21 PM
@*mrgrizz* wrote:
@boris1gary wrote:
@*mrgrizz* wrote:we are going to have to change our calander, make it longer
we are running out of days for all these "days"
mr grizz, it has been going since 1911 - its nothing new.
what about all the other "days"?you can't have them sharing
what days? May Day 1st of May, Xmas day are the only other "days" I bother about - of course there are a few historical anniversary dates that are marked on my calender.
on 08-03-2014 02:24 PM
@boris1gary wrote:
@*mrgrizz* wrote:we are going to have to change our calander, make it longer
we are running out of days for all these "days"
mr grizz, it has been going since 1911 - its nothing new.
That's right, Mr Grizz, nothing new at all.....
It was first celebrated in 1909, following a resolution by the Communist Party of Austria. Following this, it was then adopted by the Second Socialist International in Copenhagen in the same year. In 1917, demonstrations marking Women’s Day on March 8th played a key role in the October revolution.
on 08-03-2014 02:24 PM
@**meep** wrote:
@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:when is International Men's Day?
19th of November
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day
I'm with polks on this one, every other day is Man's day, at least in most countries.
on 08-03-2014 02:30 PM
@boris1gary wrote:
@**meep** wrote:
@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:when is International Men's Day?
19th of November
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day
I'm with polks on this one, every other day is Man's day, at least in most countries.
hmmm......I'm with Ingeborg Breines on this - "This is an excellent idea and would give some gender balance."