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L'affiche représente un dessin de femme brandissant une pancarte sur laquelle est écrite "Défends tes droits" sur fond d'Europe et d'étoiles européennes

Source : https://online-collection.historia.europa.eu/en/collection/item/53502/, consulté en ligne le 25 mars 2025 Content Description Poster published by a Spanish trade union for International Women’s Day in 2012. It was distributed to regional and other branches, where it could be adapted. This is the Catalan version of the poster. Trade unions regularly celebrate 8 March, adapting slogans and demands to current events, as is the case here with reference to the economic crisis that struck Europe in 2008. The circle of stars from the European flag and the map of Europe in the background recall the European Union’s strong commitment to promoting equal opportunities at work for women and men – especially equal pay for equal work. The engagement of the trade unions reflects the fact that this equality is still far from having been achieved. Curator’s Note First organised in the United States, International Women’s Day was put on the agenda in Europe in 1910 (without a fixed date) by women socialists, notably Clara Zetkin from Germany. In 1911, International Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, with mass rallies demanding the right to vote, as well as labour and education rights. In 1913–1914, the celebration took a pacifist turn. The women’s strike for ‘bread and peace’ in Petrograd on 23 February 1917 (corresponding to 8 March in the Gregorian calendar) was an important moment in the Russian Revolution. From then on, 8 March became an official ‘working women’s day’ in the Soviet Union, and, after the Second World War, in the communist countries. Like 1 May (International Workers’ Day), it was largely instrumentalised by communist propaganda, which celebrated working women as bearers of social progress, both in farming and in the factories. After the war, 8 March was also celebrated by socialist and communist movements in the non-communist world, such as in France and Italy. In the 1970s, the second wave of feminism broadened the scope and 8 March became one of the moments to put forward women’s demands (such as equal pay and reproductive rights), no longer necessarily associated with a socialist or communist label. At international level, in December 1977, the United Nations General Assembly invited all states to proclaim an annual ‘Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace’. Nowadays, 8 March is celebrated across Europe and the world, in a wide range of ways, from apolitical women’s celebrations (which even have commercial overtones) to actions promoting women’s rights.