As worldwide celebrated March 8

In Russia, March 8 usually replaces the Mother's Day and Valentine's Day, honoring the women in this day just for the mere fact of existence and give them flowers and candy. Celebrated on March 8 and in other countries, but not the same: to this day held in conjunction with high-profile large-scale actions. Although the one that carried out in 1917, Russian women, on the scale could not beat nobody.

Women's Revolution

By 1917, the international women's day was celebrated Communist, social-democrat, an anarchist and organized them women workers in some countries for several years. To him timed rallies and demonstrations with the requirements of predominantly economic character: the difference in pay between women and men at that time was not even up to 30%, and in some times - except about the same volume and severity of work. In addition, usually require electoral rights - in those countries where such rights were men.

Although the Russian Empire had its own calendar, workers of Petrograd decided to coincide their demonstration was the international March 8. According to the Russian old calendar March 8 worldwide accounted for 23 February. As the country for three years participated in the First World War, which literally ruined her, women's demands revolved around the lack of food and the world needs.

In the morning, women held rallies at their plants, and then announced that the strike today, and moved to the streets, chanting: "Bread! Bread! "We moved them to the" male "plants, and to offer employees a male to join the demonstration. As a result, the size of the demonstration came to 60 000 people, and excitement ran ... famous by the February Revolution and the abdication of the king of the throne.

March 8 - day strikes

Though March 8 is constantly raised the issue of compliance of basic women's rights and opposition to domestic violence, it is first of all associates with labor issues, so that on this day in different countries organize strikes.

For example, in 2018 declared feminists in the United States on March 8, "A day without women." Any wishing to participate should this day not to go to work (take a day off in advance), not to engage in domestic work and walk in vosmimartovskom march in red clothes. However, due to the last paragraph march turned out not so ambitious as expected: many were afraid of color, having decided that the case involved the Communists. The idea of ​​the "Day Without Women" was to show how much of the country rests on the work of women and the importance of family economy, cities and countries their participation.

In Italy, the same year the unions associated with the transport operation, announced a general strike, not only to give working women show their importance, but also the employees - to express its solidarity with them. Strike touched Rome, Milan and Naples, so that the citizens had to change to personal transport or a taxi, on the streets and then formed traffic jams. Joined the strike and some schools and hospitals. We did not work underground, suburban trains and airports.

Cacerolazo

In general, the International Women's Day was established in memory of the first, probably female mass rallies in the US - Cacerolazo. In 1857, textile workers marched through the streets of New York, demanding reduce the working day to ten hours, raise wages comparable to men, and especially point to make working conditions safer. To attract attention, they beat loudly in the empty pots - empty including the fact that a lot of food for such wages would not buy.

The security requirement was very important at work, because nobody will care in the government and, therefore, did not care, and employers, quietly watching as toxic fumes are killing women in the workplace, leaving too narrow passages between hazardous machines and locked the factory, so no one could sneak up to the end of the working day - which resulted in a fire to massive deaths.

In 1901, the march was repeated housewives. During the demonstration, they were rumbling empty pots. Now, the requirements were already political more than economic. Voting rights, the ability to take a blue-collar positions, to which women are not allowed (about the safety arguments then could not look convincing in light of how many women were working in dangerous conditions), a normal human respect.

After nine years in Germany, Clara Zetkin proposed in the memory of two marches to make this day the day of solidarity of women and the struggle for their rights. In fact, approximately in the manner originally a holiday in the USSR and celebrated - the people were like women's rights and their role in society.

In 2018 (again), the year when women have been the most massive demonstrations around the world, in Spain in memory of Cacerolazo staged a giant rally, which banged on pots and pans. Among the agendas were not only workers - calls for a halt to cover domestic violence and justify rape.

Among the slogans in memory of the victims, which could not be accepted by society at the time the security measures, was: "We're not all - is not killed." As in Italy, to the demonstration joined by many men. The question was not only in solidarity - had reason to fear that the right-wing radicals try to throw any rubbish in the member states, as has happened in some other countries. In total, the demonstration took five million people participated. The color of protest in Spain was the purple - it is the color of the feminist movement.

The free women of the East

March 8, 2016 was remembered by the fact that women vosmimartovsky March the Turkish police in Istanbul dispersed with rubber bullets. The fact that the authorities have refused to agree on the demonstration, saying that it will be, they say, is unsafe. "The protest does not require permission!" Said Turkish feminists. Although it demonstrated in only a few hundred people, and it was held, though loud, but peacefully, the police decided to disperse it was rubber bullets - even though it was expected that the participants will be separated from one of the crowd and arrest.

The most famous event on March 8 in the Muslim world was performed in 1979 in Iran. Women came out to protest against compulsory hijab. In the year of mass vosmimartovskih shares in the 2018 Iranian women took to the streets again, demanding equality: Now the question was not only about the hijab, but also for admission to higher education. As a result, shares of 80 people were arrested. 20 of them were brought to trial on charges of acting against the security forces.