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Our bodies are our own! Małgorzata Tracz on women’s rights in Wrocław

Our bodies are not the property of the government, of politicians or of the episcopate. Our bodies are our own! – said the Chairperson of the Polish Green Party Zieloni Małgorzata Tracz during the demonstration of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy on the 3rd April in Wrocław. Read the speech. Today I had …

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8thMARCH, 2016: WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN RESISTING MILITARISM

Dear sisters, friends, activists and fellow fighters, In recent days, the world has been getting ready to celebrate the 8thof March, International Women’s Day, a date that is commemorated all over the world by unions, organisations, women’s groups, and more, many of whom are unaware of the day’s socialist origins that pay tribute to the …

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Igbo women campaign for rights (The Women’s War) in Nigeria, 1929

By November 1929, Igbo women in southeastern Nigeria had had enough. From the perspective of the British colonizers, the women became loud, angry, and disruptive. They marched through cities and towns and demanded political leaders to step down. The women took their British rulers completely by surprise. The British were ignorant of the discontent among …

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