Women Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Women rising around the world

By Aprille Scully Inequality under the capitalist system has accelerated in recent years and sees the top 1% own more wealth than the 99%. Neoliberalism means privatisation and underfunding of public services which particularly affects women in areas of health, education, maternity

Nov 22, 2016

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Ruth Coppinger calls for end to interception of abortion pills

Parliamentary Question included below Anti-Austerity Alliance TD, Ruth Coppinger, has today called on the government and Customs to “stop adding to the misery of women in crisis pregnancies by intercepting abortion pills they have ordered and paid for online.” Speaking after figures

Apr 21, 2015

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Marking the inspirational struggle of women

By Eleanor Donne Over the years, International Women’s Day – originally intended to mark the inspirational struggle of the half of the world’s oppressed because of gender – has been commercialised, stripped of its radical message on women’s key part in the

Mar 8, 2015

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Review: Vessel

By Fiona O’Loughlin The documentary film Vessel, screened by ROSA in December, is an inspiring account of the development of Women on Waves and Women on Web. It charts how a group of women led by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, endeavoured to provide

Feb 4, 2015

Fighting oppression – a Marxist viewpoint

Marxism is a philosophy and world view that seeks to materially analyse reality. Although it was not possible for Marx and Engels themselves to adequately address all questions of oppression, as well as other issues in their writings, they did specifically address

Oct 27, 2014

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Irish Constitution: Misogyny written into law

Drawn up under the equally conservative Catholic Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, the Constitution was consciously modelled on Catholic social teaching.

Oct 2, 2014

Comment & Other

Symphysiotomy redress is an insult

No apology & miniscule sums add to women's suffering.

Jul 2, 2014

News & Analysis

Irish capitalist state responsible for church terror

From the 1943 Cavan Fire in which 35 children and one adult perished after nuns refused to let girls escape to avoid them being seen in their night-gowns; to the enslavement of poor women in Magdalene Laundries, the last of which closed

Jul 1, 2014

Theory & History·Uncategorized

History: “We want bread, but we want roses too!”

The 1912 strike in the textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, known as the Bread and Roses strike, was one of the most important industrial struggles of the 20th century.

Jun 27, 2014

Latest·News & Analysis

Mother & Baby Homes: Both church & state are guilty

Appalling – abhorrent – grotesque – it’s difficult to find words to adequately express the horrors visited upon the poorest and most vulnerable sections of Irish society, particularly women and children, at the hands of Church and State in Ireland.

Jun 11, 2014

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