Tag: Gender Based Violence

Housing Ireland

Landlordism and Sexual Exploitation

First covered in The Irish Times in 2017, sex-for-rent is periodic news fodder and is a lasting, if not growing, feature of the rental market in Ireland. Predatory landlords advertise properties either specifying women tenants only or merely dismissing messages from men, and then as the prospective tenant arrives, they […]

Marxist Feminism Political Statements

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the CPI stands in unwavering solidarity with the women and children of Gaza, who courageously endure the harrowing reality of state-orchestrated oppression. Palestinian women find themselves at the forefront of a relentless genocide. They witness the very people they […]

Marxist Feminism

Violence against women: A class question

While violence against women cuts across socio-economic divides, working-class women are particularly exposed both to violence—especially violence from strangers—and to its economic effects. Urantsetseg Tserendorj was an office cleaner who was attacked in the Financial Services Centre in Dublin as she made her way home from her shift in January […]