Alice Lloyd, The Weekly Standard
It might come to the surprise of the average woman who has been bombarded with inspirational corporate hashtags and ads for #girlpower T-shirts that what we now know as International Women’s Day, started as an anti-capitalist protest: The first National Women’s Day took place February 28, 1908, under the auspices of the official Socialist Party of America to honor striking garment workers in New York.Women’s Day then moved to March, where the end of February falls in the Gregorian calendar, when the women of wartorn revolutionary Russia took to the streets to strike for Bread and Peace. It…
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