Women have been military and political leaders, playing a major role in socialist revolutions such as in Russia and China. Together, these socialist revolutions saved hundreds of millions of lives that would have been starved to death under capitalism (currently capitalism causes 1 out of 3 people in the world to die or become disabled due to starvation, according to the World Health Organization). These numbers prove that even the Stalinists are heroes for all the world who should be defended against capitalist critics. Here is a little about each of these women:
Revolutionary Women of the Era of the Bourgeois Revolution:
American Revolution:
Deborah Samson - 1st American Female Soldier
Sybil Ludington - "Female Paul Revere"
French Revolution:
Mary Wollstonecraft - Defended French Revolution, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Olympe de Gouges - French Revolutionary Girondin, wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Citizen
Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt - Leader in Storming of Bastille
Haitian Revolution:
Suzanne "Sanité" Bélair - Haitian Revolutionary Military Leader
Marie-Jeanne de Lamartinière - Haitian Revolutionary, Fighter
American Civil War:
Harriet Tubman - Underground Railroad Hero, Military Leader in US Civil War
Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist Speaker
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Abolitionist Writer
Revolutionary Women of the Era of the Workers Revolution:
Paris Commune:
Louise Michel - Fighter and Agitator in Paris Commune
Élisabeth Dmitrieff - Fighter, Socialist, founder of Women’s Union for the Defence of Paris and for Aid to the Wounded
Russian Revolution:
Alexandra Kollontai - 1st Female Minister in the World
Evgeniia Bosh - Military Leader, 1st Female Head of Government in the world for Ukraine People's Republic of the Soviets of Workers and Peasants, Supporter of Trotsky
Elena Stasova - Central Committee Member
Nadezhda Krupskaya - Led development of universal public education
Inessa Armand - First Head of Zhenotdel, Department of Working Women and Peasant Women, world's first government department for women
Klavdiia Nikolaeva - Head of Zhenotdel, removed for supporting Left Opposition (Trotskyists)
Alexandra Artiukhina - Last Head of Zhenotdel
Rozaliia Zemliachka - Only woman on Council of Peoples Commissars in later Stalin period
Other Communists:
Rosa Luxemburg - Polish Leader of Spartacus Uprising in Germany
Clara Zetkin - German Revolutionary, Started International Womens Day
Sylvia Pankhurst - British Revolutionary and Suffragist
Phyllis Anwar - 1st woman to refuse to wear the veil in Afghanistan, supported USSR intervention, Trotskyist
Stalinist Revolutionaries:
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka - World's First non monarch female head of state for Tuvan People's Republic
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa - World's Second non monarch female head of state for Mongolian People's Republic
Lyudmila Pavlichenko - WW2 USSR sniper, 309 confirmed kills
Milka Planinc - Yugoslavian Revolutionary, Prime Minister 1982-86
Kim Jong Suk - Korean Revolutionary
Nexhmije Hoxha - Albanian Revolutionary
Song Qingling - Led Pro-Communist split of the KMT, Peoples Republic of China's first female Head of State
Jiang Qing - Chinese Revolutionary, Leader of the Gang of Four
Deng Yingchao - Chinese Revolutionary, Chair of Womens Federation
Celia Sánchez - Cuban Revolutionary
Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider - Joined Cuban Revolution, fought alongside Che
Nguyen Thi Binh - Vietnamese Revolutionary, Vice President
Nguyễn Thị Định - Vietnamese Revolutionary, Military Leader
Martyrs:
Ethel Rosenberg - Executed by the US government for defending the USSR
Sandra Smith - American Maoist, Killed by KKK, FBI, and Cops for opposing the KKK
Read More:
The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/esp/59/emancipation.html
International Women's Day: A Proletarian Holiday
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/887/iwd.html
Women and Revolution:
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/womendrev/index.html
Women have been military and political leaders, playing a major role in socialist revolutions such as in Russia and China. Together, these socialist revolutions saved hundreds of millions of lives that would have been starved to death under capitalism (currently capitalism causes 1 out of 3 people in the world to die or become disabled due to starvation, according to the World Health Organization). These numbers prove that even the Stalinists are heroes for all the world who should be defended against capitalist critics. Here is a little about each of these women:
Revolutionary Women of the Era of the Bourgeois Revolution:
American Revolution:
Deborah Samson - 1st American Female Soldier
Sybil Ludington - "Female Paul Revere"
French Revolution:
Mary Wollstonecraft - Defended French Revolution, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Olympe de Gouges - French Revolutionary Girondin, wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Citizen
Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt - Leader in Storming of Bastille
Haitian Revolution:
Suzanne "Sanité" Bélair - Haitian Revolutionary Military Leader
Marie-Jeanne de Lamartinière - Haitian Revolutionary, Fighter
American Civil War:
Harriet Tubman - Underground Railroad Hero, Military Leader in US Civil War
Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist Speaker
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Abolitionist Writer
Revolutionary Women of the Era of the Workers Revolution:
Paris Commune:
Louise Michel - Fighter and Agitator in Paris Commune
Élisabeth Dmitrieff - Fighter, Socialist, founder of Women’s Union for the Defence of Paris and for Aid to the Wounded
Russian Revolution:
Alexandra Kollontai - 1st Female Minister in the World
Evgeniia Bosh - Military Leader, 1st Female Head of Government in the world for Ukraine People's Republic of the Soviets of Workers and Peasants, Supporter of Trotsky
Elena Stasova - Central Committee Member
Nadezhda Krupskaya - Led development of universal public education
Inessa Armand - First Head of Zhenotdel, Department of Working Women and Peasant Women, world's first government department for women
Klavdiia Nikolaeva - Head of Zhenotdel, removed for supporting Left Opposition (Trotskyists)
Alexandra Artiukhina - Last Head of Zhenotdel
Rozaliia Zemliachka - Only woman on Council of Peoples Commissars in later Stalin period
Other Communists:
Rosa Luxemburg - Polish Leader of Spartacus Uprising in Germany
Clara Zetkin - German Revolutionary, Started International Womens Day
Sylvia Pankhurst - British Revolutionary and Suffragist
Phyllis Anwar - 1st woman to refuse to wear the veil in Afghanistan, supported USSR intervention, Trotskyist
Stalinist Revolutionaries:
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka - World's First non monarch female head of state for Tuvan People's Republic
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa - World's Second non monarch female head of state for Mongolian People's Republic
Lyudmila Pavlichenko - WW2 USSR sniper, 309 confirmed kills
Milka Planinc - Yugoslavian Revolutionary, Prime Minister 1982-86
Kim Jong Suk - Korean Revolutionary
Nexhmije Hoxha - Albanian Revolutionary
Song Qingling - Led Pro-Communist split of the KMT, Peoples Republic of China's first female Head of State
Jiang Qing - Chinese Revolutionary, Leader of the Gang of Four
Deng Yingchao - Chinese Revolutionary, Chair of Womens Federation
Celia Sánchez - Cuban Revolutionary
Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider - Joined Cuban Revolution, fought alongside Che
Nguyen Thi Binh - Vietnamese Revolutionary, Vice President
Nguyễn Thị Định - Vietnamese Revolutionary, Military Leader
Martyrs:
Ethel Rosenberg - Executed by the US government for defending the USSR
Sandra Smith - American Maoist, Killed by KKK, FBI, and Cops for opposing the KKK
Read More:
The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/esp/59/emancipation.html
International Women's Day: A Proletarian Holiday
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/887/iwd.html
Women and Revolution:
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/womendrev/index.html