Category: Domestic Violence
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End the violence, overthrow the system
Like an aggressive cancer within society, violence against women is spreading and growing across Ireland. In 2024 alone, An Garda Síochána responded to more than 65,000 domestic abuse incidents. And the crisis is deepening year by year. Nearly half of all women have experienced verbal abuse in public spaces, while one-third have been subjected to…
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“Let down at every step”: institutional misogyny and the rottenness of the PSNI
The release of the report into the murder of 21-year-old Katie Simpson from Tynan, County Armagh – and the utter failure to protect her or even properly investigate her killing – has cast a brutal light on the institutional misogyny that runs deep within the PSNI. The 203-page report makes for harrowing reading. In its…
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Women, capitalism, and the struggle against oppression – A Marxist critique of Silvia Federici
The communist movement has a proud legacy when it comes to fighting oppression, linking this struggle to the fight against class society itself. This is the tradition that International Working Women’s Day was based on, when it was first proposed in 1910. The Marxist position on oppression is often attacked, however. One of those who…
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Fight domestic violence with class struggle
A report from the Irish women’s aid organisation Saoirse paints a bleak picture of the horrors that women across the country are being subjected to.