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Claudia Jones — Part 10
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"The widespread peace sentiments, parti-
ecularly of the women and the youth in their millions,
must be organized and given direction and effective,
militant expression. This is necessary, since the
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deceive the people and to paralyze their will to
fight for peace. Particularly insidious agents of
the warmakers are the Social-Democratic and reformist
labor leaders, the reactionary Roman Catholic hier-
archy, and the American agents of the fascist Tito
gang of imperialist spies, whose main task is to
confuse, split and undermine the paace camp,
'Wienns a fundamental condition for
Hence, fundament al condition for
rallying the masses of American women into the peace
camp is to free them from the influence of tha
agents of imperialism and to arouse their sense of
internationalism with millions upon millions of their
sisters the world over; to protest the repressive
and death-dealing measures carried through against
the countless women victims by Wall Street's puppets
inMarshallized Italy, in fascist Greece and Spain;
to link them in solidarity with the anti-imperlalist
women united 80 million strong in 59 lands in the
Women's International Democratic Federation, who
are in the front ranks of the strugglo for peace and
democracy.
"March 8 was designated International
Woments Day by the International Socialist Conference
in 1910, upon the initiative of Clarer@etkin, the
heroic German Communist leader, who later electrified
the world with her brave denunciation of the Nazis
in Hitler's Reichstag in 1933. Already in 1907,
Lenin demanded that the woman question be specifically
mentioned in Socialist programs because of the special
nroblemsa, needs and demands of tolling women
problems, is
nk
Present at the 1910 conference as a roprosentative
of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, Lenin
strongly supported and urged adoption of the resolution
inaugurating International Womcn's Day. Thus did
the American-initiated March 8 become International
Women's Day,
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