Marxist Writers: Clara Zetkin
Clara Zetkin
1857–1933
Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious, October 1896
The Workers’ International Festival, May 1899
May Greetings from Stuttgart, May 1900
Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage, 1906
For Adult Suffrage, May 1909
German Socialist Women’s Movement, October 1909
A Greeting from Abroad, May 1913
August Bebel Obituary, August 1913
German Women to Their Sisters in Great Britain, December 1913
The Duty of Working Women in War-Time, November 1914
The Women of Germany to the Women of Great Britain, January 1915
Rosa Luxemburg (intro to the Junius Pamphlet), May 1919
Karl Liebknecht, September 1919
Rosa Luxemburg, September 1919
Hail to the Third Socialist International!, 1919
In Defence of Rosa Luxemburg, 1919
Through Dictatorship to Democracy, 1919
The Situation in Germany, 1920
Lenin on the Women’s Question
A May-Day Message from Germany
Clara Zetkin in Moscow
Fraternal Greetings to the Communist Unity Convention, 1920
The following 6 documents in this section were translated by John Riddell from the original languages they were presented and transcribed at the 3rd Congress of the Comintern in 1921.
World Economic Crisis and the New Tasks of the Communist International, June 24, 1921
Speech in Discussion of Executive Committee Report, June 27, 1921
Speech in Discussion of Italian Question, June 29, 1921
Statement, July 2, 1921
Speech in Discussion of Tactics and Strategy, July 2, 1921
Speech Report on Communist Women’s Movement, July 8, 1921
The following 3 documents in this section were translated by John Riddell from the original languages they were presented and transcribed at the 4th Congress of the Comintern in 1922.
Speech to Opening Session of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, November 5, 1922
Report on Five Years of the Russian Revolution, November 13–14, 1922
Alternative translation above speech from International Press Correspondence
Report on Communist Work among Women, November 27, 1922
Extracts from alternative translation from International Socialism
The International Communist Women’s Day, March 1922
The Communist Delegation to the Chairman of the Commission of Nine, May 1922
To Arthur Henderson and James Ramsay MacDonald! (with N. Bukharin, L.-O. Frossard & K. Radek), March 1922
The Struggle Against New Imperialistic Wars, 1922
Organising Working Women, 1922
The Russian Revolution & the Fourth Congress of the Comintern, 1922
Open Letter to the London and Vienna Internationals and the Amsterdam Trade Union International, January 1923 (with Fritz Heckert, Walton Newbold & Karl Radek)
March 8 – The International Communist Women’s Day, 1923, March 1923
Fight Fascism!, March 1923
International Committee of Action against War and Fascism, April 5, 1923
Soviet Russia and the IWR (with Alfons Paquet), June 7, 1923
The Struggle Against Fascism, June 20, 1923, to the Third Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
Alternative version in International Press Correspondence
Concluding Speech, June 21, 1923
Resolution on Fascism, Communist International Executive Committee, June 23, 1923
The Enlarged Executive – Eleventh Day of Session, June 23, 1923
Report of the Commission on the Women’s Question, June 23, 1923
The Third Anniversary of the Kommunistka, The Women’s Organ of Soviet Russia’s Proletarian Revolution, June 28, 1923
Help Reconstruction in Russia! (signed with 39 others), July 25, 1923
Fascism, August 1923
From the International of Word to the International of Deed
World Wide Field of Activity of the Comintern
To the Congress of the German Communist Party
The German October and the Path to Workers’ Power, 1924
Reminiscences of Lenin, 1924
From My Memorandum Book (An Interview with Lenin on the Woman Question), 1925
The German Ultra-Left (Part Two), 1926
The Clara Zetkin Collections at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
Museum-Clara-Zetkin im Zetkin-Haus, Birkenwerder.
Archiv Clara Zetkin, German-language archive in MIA.
Last updated on 5 October 2024