One of the greatest lessons the Russian state learned on March 8, 1917 was never to underestimate the women of Petrograd. On that fateful morning, International Women’s Day, women workers threw down their tools and walked out of the factories and into the streets.
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By
Dana Blanchard
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March 8 2017
The Watsonville Canning strike of 1985-87 was a dramatic show of the power of women workers, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement.
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By
Jim Plank
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October 18 2016
