Militant Women's Movement of Australia.

Also known as
Militant Women's Movement. (1926-)
Function
Feminist organisation and Social action organisation
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http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an36021745
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-603248

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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 asJean Thompson, Joy Higgins, Edna Ryan, Hetty Weitzel (Ross), Mary Lamm (Wright), Edna Cavanagh and Alice McConville.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. The Woman Worker
    Militant Women's Movement
    [1928]
    Published: Militant Women's Movement
  2. Reason in Revolt: Source Documents of Australian Radicalism
    Booth, Simon, Verity Burgmann, Stuart Macintyre, Andrew Milner and Matthew Ryan.
    [2006]
    Published: University of Melbourne; Monash University
    Series: http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/home.htm
  3. A History of International Women's Day in words and images
    Stevens, Joyce
    [1997]
    Series: http://www.isis.aust.com/iwd/stevens/contents.htm
  4. Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records
    Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia)
    [1977]
    Published: Australian Government Publishing Service
  5. National Library of Australia Oral History Collection: Interview with Mary Wright [sound recording] / Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy
    8 tape reels : 3 3/4 ips., mono. ; 5 in. Interview conducted in 1988. Mrs Wright speaks of her family background and her early life in SydHouney; her first marriage; living conditions during the 1920s; the Militant Women's Group; scabs and the timberworkers' lockout, Glebe; evictions from houses; rations; demonstrations; International Women's Day; Civil War in Spain; Jessie Street; Selina Maloney; meeting Tom Wright; Communist Party social activities; Paddy Drew; Tom's involvement in the union; his work at Wonderlex; New Guard; Workers' Defence Corps; welfare inspections; Woman Today; Spanish Relief Committee; Tom's work on the Labor Council; Idris Williams; Bill Orr; fights in the Labor Council; caucusing; Jim Healey; Ernie Thornton; book raids; women's wages; Jessie Street's involvement in the labour movement; Della Elliot ; Tom's involvement in the ACTU; Tom's overseas trips; his work with aborigines; Housewives Association; Union of Australian Women; International Women's Day committee; miners' strike; book raids; Vietnam demonstrations; her work in the Bankstown area; changes to the women's movement; communism; the ALP.
    ORAL TRC 1948/43

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  1. Woman worker (Sydney, N.S.W.)
    Militant Women's Movement of Australia
    [ Periodical : 1928 ]
    At 3 libraries
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