In this booklet, published on occasion of the 10th Conference of All India Democratic Women’s Association, we pay our homage to some of the pioneers of the women’s movement in India who also laid the foundations of our Association. The leaders whose lives and activities are commemorated in these few pages are Jyoti Chakraborty from West Bengal, Janaki Ammal from Tamil Nadu, Manikonda Suryavathi from Andhra Pradesh, Devaki Warrier from Kerala, Niruben Patel from Gujarat and Sukhamati Debbarma from Tripura. Apart from the last-mentioned, the rest are no more with us. But at a time when our Association is engaged in grim struggles against the present neo-liberal regime in our country, which also presides over the unleashing anew of forces of social reaction like communalism, casteism and aggravated gender violence, it is necessary for us to recall the fighting tradition represented by these women that is our glorious heritage. As Manikonda Suryavathi said in 1993 in the last public meeting attended by her, “We have no other way but to start another struggle for Independence!”
Clara Zetkin along with her comrades Alexandra Kollantai and others, moved a resolution at the International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen to observe an “ International Women’s Day.”
The AIDWA central executive committee (CEC) meeting held on March 31- April 1-2, 2018 in New Delhi took several important decisions to mobilise women in large numbers against the severe attacks on…
The AIDWA central executive committee (CEC) meeting held on June 30-July 1-2, 2017 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, took several important decisions to take forward the movement on mass issues concerning…
AIMS AND OBJECTS PROGRAMME CONSTITUTION Of All India Democratic Women’s Association Adopted at the first Conference of the All India Democratic Women’s Association held at Madras on 10-12…
AIDWA took the initiative to organize a two day workshop on health related issues for activists from the Hindi speaking states. The growing challenge to achieving the right to health care, in a…
