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When 300,000 public sector workers went out on strike, the majority were women. The picket lines were living proof of how much our workforce has become feminised. The increase in the number of women in paid work here is relatively recent, and quite dramatic. According to the latest CSO
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by Marnie Holborow What is Social Reproduction Theory? It is a Marxist feminist term which covers how capitalism depends on unpaid care in the home for the ongoing reproduction of human life and labour. Because this work is mainly done by women, taken for granted and free for the system,
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We know that the majority of people in Ireland want Ireland to keep its neutrality. Yet the Irish government is intent on doing the reverse. During its current Presidency of the EU Council, despite the ongoing genocide in Palestine and the escalating militarisation of Europe, it is not even putting
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Expanding wars, economic stagnation, runaway financial speculation, widening social inequalities, political polarisation, ecological disasters and the ongoing threat to the biosphere – today’s world is shot through with uncertainties. A recent book, Epochal Crisis, by William I. Robinson argues that we are in a new period of worldwide capitalist instability
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The American ruling class learned a lesson from their defeat in Vietnam. Seeing the brutality of war makes people rise up against it. Coverage of the mass killings of Vietnamese civilians – the naked girl running distraught from the 1969 My Lai massacre and the soldiers returning in body bags – fed
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The Rearm Europe plan, now underway, marks a decisive moment. It puts the EU on a war footing. The hawks are in charge. Von der Leyen’s commitment to a surge in European defence signals the arrival of a centralised European defence policy, even though this is supposed to be
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Marnie Holborow explains how the recently announced ReArm Europe plan, which will dramatically increase military spending across member states, reveals the EU’s pivotal role in the shifting world of imperialist rivalries. “Europe is ready to massively increase its defense spending.” Speaking at the launch of the EU plan to
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Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens in government have continued to allow our airspace to be used to transport arms to Israel, and have consistently refused to sanction Israel. This makes them complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Marnie Holborow argues, for this rotten record alone, any government politician
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Marnie Holborow argues that the escalation of far right violence and racism requires the urgent building of a united anti-racist movement. The new British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has called for those who were responsible for the riots would face ‘the full force of the law’ and mass arrests
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Marnie Holborow explores the deeply exploitative and misogynistic currents of modern childcare under neoliberal capitalism. Arguing for a state-led solution to lift families and parents up from the chaos of the private market childcare industrial complex. A recent report from Irish Life found that Ireland’s gender pension gap
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The status of women in Irish society has changed dramatically in recent decades. Modern Ireland is a different place to the one that Eamon De Valera and Archbishop John Charles McQuaid presided over when the constitution was adopted in 1937. Marnie Holborow argues that the upcoming referendum on “women in
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With the recent announcement of a military trade deal and defence partnership involving the US, UK and Australia, Marnie Holborow analyses the roots of imperialism, arguing that the world, including Europe, will become more unstable. The trilateral defence partnership which the US and UK have signed with Australia is an