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SYLVIA PANKHURST and Clara Zetkin were firm friends. They met in the early 20th century through the international Women’s Socialist Organisation.
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As is well known, Zetkin, who was international secretary of the world’s largest socialist women’s organisation, proposed International Women’s Day at the second International Conference of Working Women in 1910 in response to mass strikes and protests by women workers in the US.
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