March 8, is International Women’s Day. The earliest Women’s Day celebrations were organized in the early twentieth century by commie firebrand types like Germany’s Clara Zetkin and Russia’s Alexandra Kollantai. The purpose was to bring together two great political movements, feminism and socialism, and to pay tribute women’s revolutionary potential. The March 8th date was chosen to commemorate the historic protests that took place on March 8, 1857, when female garment workers in New York City took to the streets to protest low wages and dangerous working conditions. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 women in 1911, led to renewed activism that popularlized  International Women’s Day celebrations throughout the world.