Activities and affiliations

What people did, and whom they served in that activity.

Activity

All 7 Political and party leadership 6 Social movements and organizing 1

State, movement or organization

All 223 Soviet Union 91 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 27 Left Opposition 15 Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Narodnaya Volya 6 Left Communists 4 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4 Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1
All 32 affiliations by country

China

Communist Party of China 1

Estonia

Popular Front of Estonia (Rahvarinne) 1

France

General Confederation of Labour (CGT, France) 2 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP/FTPF) 1 Cordeliers Club 2 Enragés 1 Conspiracy of the Equals / Société des Égaux 2

Germany

Germany state institutions 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 3 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 2

Poland

Solidarity (Solidarność) 7 Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) 2 Free Trade Unions of the Coast (WZZ) 3 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 3 Narodnaya Volya 6 General Jewish Labour Bund 1 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 4

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 27 ↳ Left Communists 4 ↳ Democratic Centralists (Decists) 3 ↳ Workers' Opposition 2 ↳ Left Opposition 15 ↳ Union of Marxist-Leninists (Ryutin group) 1 Soviet Union 91

Spain

Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1

United Kingdom

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 1

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1

Yugoslavia

Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1

Social movements and organizing · Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) people 1

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Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin
Political and party leadership Communist Party of Germany (KPD) Germany Germany 1857–1933 ○ Natural causes

Creator of International Women's Day, she set women's liberation at the heart of class struggle

Six months before Hitler took power, she opened the Reichstag as its oldest member with a call for a united front against Nazism (1932)

Founder of Marxist feminism, she saw women's liberation as inseparable from class struggle and proposed International Women's Day in 1910. From anti-war resistance to co-founding the KPD, she opened the Reichstag at seventy-five with a call for a united front against Nazism.

Career timeline
  • 1878–1917Leads the SPD women's movement; edits Die Gleichheit (1892–1917)
  • 1910Proposes International Women's Day at Copenhagen
  • 1915–1919Anti-war work; in at the founding of the Spartacus League and the KPD
  • 1920–1933Reichstag deputy; Comintern executive
  • 1925Published the memoir Lenin on the Women’s Question
  • 1932Opens the Reichstag as its oldest member, calling for a united front against Nazism
  • 1933Exile to the USSR; dies in June, buried in the Kremlin Wall