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Domestic violence during the Covid-19 lockdown
Working with men who carry out domestic violence, LUKE DANIELS sounds the alarm on the spike in cases as couples are forced indoors due to the pandemic
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
ACTIVISTS warned that there would be an increase of domestic violence with the lockdown.
None could have predicted it would be this bad, with a jump from two to five women killed every week since the lockdown began.
Refuge, the largest domestic abuse charity, reported a 700 per cent increase in calls to its helpline, and a 25 per cent increase to a separate helpline for perpetrators seeking help.
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