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from there to the October Revolution, In recent years, International Women's Day has once again become a reality, as the growing forces of the women's movement world wide have once again made it their own.
However, the demands of the movement are only slowly becoming accepted, much less realised. It is in response to this that International Women's Year has been declared by the United Nations: *...to promote equality between men and women; to emphasize the important role women could and should play in economic, social and cultural activities, and to encourage their full integration into the life of the community; and to secure recognition of women's increasing contribution to the development of freindly relations and co-operation between conIn this country, the Women's National Commission, a Government supported body, is co-ordinating the official 'national effort. This body is composed only of the traditional women's organisations, although the TUC is represented. As part of the IWY, March 8 is being celebrated —for the first time being given official status. That makes it all the more important that we support the women's movement demonstration for that day - we must not let them co-opt our day. but in succeeding years, then the women's movement must turn out wards, to make it truly an international movement.
Leonora Lloyd "International Women's Day' by Alexandra Kollantai. From Socialist Woman or Red Books, price 12p. including postage.