A Tale from the Autonomous Women’s Liberation Movement or How the Sydney Women’s Liberation Banner Went to Cuba by Margot Oliver

“We were informed that we were allowed to carry the banner after all – but only this once! We were definitely not allowed to use it again during the rest of the festival.

And so. it transpired that, in front of a crowd of about 90,000 Cubans lining the parade route, four young Australian women discovered the serendipitous advantage of coming from a country whose name starts with A, and the raised fist inside the women’s symbol first saw the light of day in Cuba in spectacular style.“