Legitimizing the women’s international solidarity: the Red Aid

Abstract

The evolution of the concept of solidarity introduces the central topic of this article: the relationship between the solidarity of international communism and the role of women. As well as we hope to draw attention not only to the aspects of charity and welfare, related to solidarity, but to the political and civic values of solidarity and its primary relationship with women’s history. To do this, we will analyze the relevant work carried out by women in the areas of aid and solidarity within the context of the convulsive decades of the Twenties and Thirties in the 20th Century in Europe and in Spain. Our study will focus upon the Comintern organization, the International Red Aid (IRA), and more generally the field of the internationalization of female solidarity.