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Claudia Vera Jones (née Cumberbatch; 21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964) was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist.As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation". [1]
It was a state organization and a branch of the Communist Party. It succeeded a Pre-war organisation founded in 1913 with a similar name, called the Liga Kobiet Polskich (Polish Women's League). Its purpose was to mobilise women in the political ideology of the state, as well as to enforce the party's policy within gender roles and women's rights.
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace" and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation.
At the beginning of 1922 headquarters of the Communist Women's International was moved from Moscow to Berlin. [4]Clara Zetkin represented the International Women's Secretariat for Communist work among women at the 4th World Congress of the Comintern, held in Moscow in the fall of 1922, delivering her report on Monday, May 27, 1922. [5]
The Association of Junior League International – Women's development organization founded in 1901; Beta Sigma Phi – founded 1931; Communist Women's International (1920–1930) – established to advance communist ideas among women
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded in China in 1921. It grew quickly and in 1949 established the People's Republic of China under the rule of Mao Zedong, the chairman of the CCP. As a Marxist–Leninist party, the Chinese Communist Party is theoretically committed to female equality, and has vowed to place women's liberation on their ...
She joined the Communist Party USA at the age of 16, and had joined the youth branch, the American Youth for Democracy, when she was 13. [1] Early activism by Mitchell in the 1940s included participation in a successful sit-in protest against segregated seating in a theater, with white students sitting in the "colored only" balcony and Black ...
Gabrielle Duchêne, a vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), [15] and Margery Corbett Ashby, president of the International Alliance of Women, attended the congress. [16] Ashby later wrote to her husband that failure to organize women in the Near East would result in the communist women's dominance ...