Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings

About Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist activist and advocate for women's rights. In 1911 she organized the first International Women's Day Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor he tirelessly documented the lives of workers African Americans and political radicals. Because of his political affiliations he was shut out of academic employment for a quarter century. Angela Davis is an American political activist scholar and author. Davis was politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Davis was a political prisoner and is now a world-renowned scholar and author of Are Prisons Obsolete? Rosalyn Baxandall was a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Old Westbury and taught at the Bard Prison Project and the CUNY Labor School. Baxandall is the author of Words on Fire the Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press l987) the co-author of Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (New York: Basic Books 2000) the coeditor of Americas Working Women An Anthology of Womens Work 1620-1970 (New York: W.W. Norton and Co 1995) and (New York: Random House l976) and coeditor of Dear Sisters Dispatches From Women Liberation (New York: Basic Books 2000) as well as the author of almost 50 articles book reviews on day care working women sexuality reproductive rights and class race and gender in suburbia l945- 2000.