Clara Zetkin

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Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin (b. 1857.07.05, Wiederau, Saxony; d. 1933.06.20, Arkhangelskoye, Russian S.F.S.R.) aka: Clara Eissner

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"She also adopted the name of her lover, the Russian revolutionary Ossip Zetkin, with whom she had two sons. Ossip Zetkin died in 1889." - {wiki} "Clara Eissner was educated at the Leipzig Teachers' College for Women" {Britannica}

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note: *the* main source is the Marxist's InterNet Archive: "German Socialist Women's Movement" (1909.10.09). From her "Justice" (1909; P. 7); transcribed by Ted Crawford. -[complete src here]- Downloaded on 2007.11.19 at 2:29 PCT. They are to make a vigorous propaganda that the wage-earning women shall in large numbers exercise the franchise to the administrative bodies of the State sick-Insurance, the only kind of franchise women possess in Germany. The women comrades were further engaged to form local committees for the protection of children and to improve those already existing. As the legal inspection of the administration of the children’s protective law is absolutely insufficient, these committees, together with the local trade unions’ councils, have to watch over such administration. Besides this, Socialist women were reminded to found and improve protective committees for women-workers, and collect their grievances on illegal and pernicious conditions of labour, forwarding them to the factory inspector. Besides their activity in that line, the Socialist women have continued their propaganda in favour of the full political emancipation of their sex. The struggle for universal suffrage, vigorously maintained, particularly in Prussia, was a struggle for adult suffrage for both sexes, vindicated in meetings and leaflets. Public and factory meetings in great number; and an indefatigable activity in other different forms, have served he trade union organisations of the women workers. The number of women trade unionists has increased from 136,429 in 1907 to 138,44.3 in 1908. The work of our trade unions to enlighten, train and organise wage-earning women is not smaller nor less important than what the S.D.P. has done to induce women to join in political struggles of the working class.

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-[Marxists.org: archives]- -[wiki: Clara Z.]- downloaded on 2007.11.19 at 2:14 PCT. -[Britannica.com: Ms. Z.]- See also, esp: -[On Women's Isues; HERitage and HIStory]- (psp) -[]- -[]- -[]- -[]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Zetkin