- Entry type: Organisation
- Entry ID: AWE3977
Militant Women’s Movement
- Also known as Militant Women's Group
Also known as Central Women's Department of the Communist Party of Australia
- Occupation Feminist organisation, Social action organisation
Summary
The Militant Women’s Movement was the preferred name of the Central Women’s department of the Communist Party of Australia. It’s official publication was the newsletter/journal The Working Woman. was first published in 1928.
The Movement’s activities included: organising women’s conferences in Sydney and Melbourne; organising demonstrations and disrupting public meetings convened by bourgeois women’s organisations; activity in the Women’s Unemployed Worker’s Movement and the Militant Minority Movement and running candidates for municipal and State elections. They organised the first Australian International Women’s Day rally in Sydney on March 25, 1928.
Membership included such women as Jean Thompson, Joy Higgins, Edna Ryan, Hetty Weitzel (Ross), Mary Lamm (Wright), Edna Cavanagh and Alice McConville.
Archival resources
Published resources
- Edited Book
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Resource
- A History of International Women's Day in words and images, Stevens, Joyce, 1997, http://www.isis.aust.com/iwd/stevens/contents.htm
- Reason in Revolt: Source Documents of Australian Radicalism, Burgmann, Verity, Booth, Simon, Macintyre, Stuart, Milner, Andrew, Ryan, Matthew and Roberts, Jack, 2006, http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/home.htm
- Trove, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-603248
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Newspaper
- The Woman Worker, Militant Women's Movement, 1928, http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3919357