teminıst tron 1906 wards in the small women's rights groups that argued for women's sections in the Her feminism never detracted from her revolutionary determination In 1917 she the only leading Bolshevik to immediately support Lenin's April Thesis which committed the party to the taking of power through the dictatorship of the working As the only woman minister in Lenin's government sne pushed or legislation like communal child care and sup. ported or orginated all the Acts which would alleviate the lot of women.
Kollantai like her predecessors and contemDorane SUCI Clara Zetkin Rosa Luxemburg belonged to the line of women who stood in the tradition of feminism and the class struggle. But we must not forget that for every well-known woman who is written about and remembered LBere of unsung heroines of the class struggle.
One day history must give them their due . When we do that we will help to fulfil everything that Kollantai the struggle feminists fought for. THE article by the great Gersocialist leader appeared in the June 1913 issue of Woman — a journal for women run at that time by the Labour Party. The article appeared in the second issue of the In many other countries experience has shown that a socialist paper is a more fertile and powerful serve The conace It is a beacon throwing floods of light on the stormy waters and the rocks on the coast, showing dangers to avoid and the rigil ways to tonow Therefore we are quite sure Ellal the Woman will influence most favourably the development of the socialist moveMenl in England continue the good work of the League Leaflet* but on a broader and with greater means and torces The Woman will give a loud and unFOLLOWING falsified voice to all the miseries and injustices that capitanst exprolauon and thoughtlessness ADESEOY working to all the bread CulEl and rights women have to fight for because they members of the great family of mankind and without their Wage, without the many duties accomplished by them the social order could not exist a single day ...
Thus the Woman will help to con centrate the capacities and forces of socialist woman for the manifold work they have to do in order to working women round the socialist banner and to render them capable HaKtI! heavy their burden and bs their DUTCHZLIC tellectual moral to share in the JUWCID. high tasks of their the emancipation of the workers Dy the wokes themselves. * The League Leaflet was the newsletter of the League founded in 1906
Socialist Action 9 March 1984