International Women's Day is now acknowledged by middle and ruling class organisations, its true purpose disguised and its original intentions have been masked. We are republishing here the writings on James Connolly on women; it is particularly relevant that Connolly reached the conclusions within when he did. Those Republicans claiming his name in the 1970s through the pages of An Phoblacht and Republican News were pushing an anti-women agenda and kept female Republicans segregated into separate auxiliary organisations to the men.